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    Contractarianism cannot explain why all human persons are... — Carmelics
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    Contractarianism cannot explain why all human persons are owed certain duties regardless of their powers or abilities.

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    • 2.On contractarianism, it is irrational to treat truly powerless persons equally because doing so is not mutually advantageous.
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    According to the impartiality objection, all human persons are owed certain duties regardless of their powers or abilities, and because it relies on an instrumental and subjective conception of practical reason, contractarianism cannot explain how this would be so. Contractarianism, on the contrary, holds it to be irrational to treat truly powerless persons equally, since it is not mutually advantageous to do so. This problem, which is similar to the exclusion problem discussed above and in sect
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