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    Challenges→Utilitarianism, properly understood, can accommodate special obligations and personal concerns.

    A moral theory that grounds special obligations only in contingent causal efficiency provides no obligation when technology or institutions make global impact more tractable than local care.

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    Causal efficiency(as used in metaphysics)
    The power of something to make something else happen; the ability to have a real effect or influence on the world.
    Moral theory(the broader framework being evaluated)
    A systematic set of principles or rules that explains what makes actions right or wrong, and how we should behave toward others.
    contingent(De Interpretatione 12–13)
    Equated with 'possible'; on the two-sided interpretation, contingency excludes necessity (possibility implies non-necessity).
    global impact(large-scale consequences compared to local ones)
    Effects that influence large numbers of people across the world rather than just those nearby.
    grounds(Used in the context of justifying beliefs about the future on the basis of past information)

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    Obligations owed specifically to members of a particular group, as distinct from general moral duties owed to all persons
    tractable(describes how plausible or workable a philosophical theory is)
    Easy to work with, manage, or make sense of; not causing problems or being too difficult to deal with.

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