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    Without a singular locus of deliberation, attributing bla... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Collective moral responsibility is both possible and appropriate to attribute to groups

    Without a singular locus of deliberation, attributing blame to a 'group' distributes across members or evaporates entirely.

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    • 1.Moral responsibility requires causal agency: only individuals with decision-making capacity can be held accountable for choices.
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    • 2.Groups lack unified consciousness or will; blame attributed to them either names individual members or becomes meaninglessly abstract.
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    • 3.Distributing blame across members respects individual autonomy by avoiding collective punishment of those uninvolved in decisions.
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    • 1.Institutional structures create emergent responsibilities: a corporation's negligence exists independently of any single employee's intent.
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    • 2.Collective blame can be justified when groups have formal decision procedures, shared goals, and mechanisms aggregating member input.
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    • 3.Denying group blame enables evasion: corporations, governments, and organizations escape accountability by fragmenting responsibility.
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