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    It is not the case that When individuals lack control over a collective system, attributing moral responsibility to them violates the fundamental Kantian principle that 'ought implies can'.

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    • 1.'Can' refers to rational capacity and agency, not guaranteed success; individuals retain moral agency even within constraints.
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    • 2.Collective systems are composed of individual choices; disclaiming responsibility enables moral evasion by system participants.
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    • 3.Inability to control outcomes perfectly differs from inability to act morally—one can choose integrity despite systemic limitations.
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    • 1.Kant's 'ought implies can' principle requires agents possess actual capacity to perform required actions or refrain from them.
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    • 2.Individuals within opaque collective systems cannot reliably predict or control systemic outcomes despite good-faith individual efforts.
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    • 3.Holding people responsible for impossible tasks violates basic moral fairness and treats them as mere instruments of blame.
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