 The second effort zeros in on the motivational capacities of groups associated with reason-giving. Here the argument is that while collectives may not have the kind of free will associated with individual moral agents, they do have the capacity to formulate reasons and act on them. Silver (2022) argues that it is this capacity to respond to one’s reasons and to be motivated by them that renders collectives self-directed in a way that lends credence to our ascriptions of collective moral responsibility to them.