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    It is not the case that A global equality requirement is deeply counterintuitive

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    • 1.Intuitions shaped by historically contingent nationalist frameworks do not reliably track moral truth about global obligations.
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    • 2.Peter Singer's drowning child argument demonstrates that physical distance is morally irrelevant to the duty to prevent serious harm.
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    • 3.If 'counterintuitive' were sufficient to defeat moral claims, we would be unable to revise intuitions that once justified slavery or colonialism.
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    • 1.Pogge's institutional cosmopolitanism shows that wealthy nations actively harm the global poor through coercive trade regimes and odious debt enforcement.
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    • 2.When obligations arise from harm causation rather than mere beneficence, the 'demanding burden on behalf of strangers' framing fundamentally mischaracterizes the moral relationship.
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    • 1.A global equality requirement imposes very demanding obligations on prosperous individuals and nations
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    • 2.These obligations require sharing wealth with less prosperous strangers in distant lands
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    • 3.Requirements that impose such burdens on persons for the benefit of distant strangers strike many as implausible
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