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    Challenges→You are morally obligated to save a drowning infant in a shallow pond when doing so requires minimal effort and inconvenience.

    An obligation derived solely from the capacity to prevent harm with minimal cost implicitly endorses the impartial aggregative reasoning Williams identifies as integrity-destroying.

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    Key Terms

    Aggregative reasoning(as a method of decision-making contrasted with individual rights)
    A way of making decisions by adding up all the benefits and costs for everyone involved and choosing whatever produces the most total happiness or well-being.
    Integrity(Presented as a necessary condition for being an agent at all)
    The coherent unity of agency achieved through commitment to morality and universal principles of self-government.
    Minimal cost(as used in the ethical statement)
    Very small effort, expense, or inconvenience required to do something.
    Williams, Bernard(as the philosopher being referenced)
    A 20th-century British philosopher who argued that some moral theories ask us to ignore our personal projects and commitments in ways that damage who we are as individuals.

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    impartial(as a requirement for moral actions)
    Treating everyone fairly without favoring some people over others; not biased toward particular individuals or groups.
    obligation(Within obligational disputation)
    The respondent's commitment to a specific stance on the case put forward by the opponent, which governs how the respondent must respond to subsequent propositions throughout the disputation.

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