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How, critics ask, can groups, as distinct from their individual members, be understood to have bad intentions? to be morally faulty? to have a moral character, faulty or not?
That an agent intended to bring about a certain harm does not explain why the action was impermissible, but it can explain what is morally faulty about the agent's reasoning in pursuing that line of action.
The second assumption, namely, that moral blameworthiness of all kinds is grounded in the bad intentions of moral agents who cause harm, is also very useful to critics of collective responsibility, since it enables them to stipulate that collective responsibility requires, not just group intentions, but the ability of groups to have bad intentions or at least to be morally faulty.
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It may be morally acceptable to correct a faulty gene that will definitely pass on a fatal disease to a child.
Faulty Towers?
Morally wrong".
Faulty intelligence.
Faulty heater.
Faulty wiring.
Faulty parts make faulty connections.
Was it faulty?
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