group morals

     If you could talk to a member of a criminal gang about philosophy, you might be told that no member of the gang is individually responsible for any action committed as a member of the gang. It's as if the gang members were officers or employees of a corporation, who cannot be held responsible as individuals for corporate wrongdoing. A person wronged by a corporation has to sue the corporation--not an officer or employee. In this sense a corporation is a legal person. Unfortunately, law enforcement officials have never managed to successfully prosecute a gang as a corporate entity.
     A gang is not a legal corporation. Someone who joins a criminal gang, or perhaps any organization, is not only responsible for his or her own actions as a member of that gang, but is also responsible in part for all of the gang's criminal activities, since each member has in some way profited by every crime. A member of a gang who does not personally profit through a particular crime still trades on the status gained by being a member of the gang, just as every employee of a corporation profits through the business of his or her employer. The same gang members who imagine no responsibility for themselves because they have abdicated all individual responsibility to the group, would be quick to blame any employee or agent of a corporation caught polluting, or using unfair hiring practices.