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    Contractualist blame can apply to total strangers, not on... — Carmelics
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    Contractualist blame can apply to total strangers, not only those within close personal relationships

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    • 1.Contractualist blame requires a relationship as its ground
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    • 2.A stranger who steals my bag is someone I can intuitively blame
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    • 3.Therefore, we must have some relationship with every total stranger whom it makes sense to blame
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    • 1.Bernard Williams argues that impartial moral theories systematically distort the personal relationships and projects that give life its meaning.
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    • 2.If contractualist blame requires positing a universal 'relationship' with strangers, this trivializes the concept of relationship itself.
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    • 3.A concept of relationship stretched to cover all rational agents lacks the discriminating content needed to ground genuine moral blame.
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    • 1.Aristotle holds that blame is intelligible only within communities sharing thick ethical norms, not among strangers lacking common moral formation.
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    • 2.Strangers by definition lack the shared evaluative framework that makes blaming responses mutually legible and action-guiding.
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    Contractualist blame thus only makes sense within a relationship, such as friendship or family relationships. Impairment must be judged against the standard of what is appropriate within that relationship. This raises an obvious problem. What relationship could possibly ground judgements of blameworthiness and reactions of blame in the general moral case? Suppose a stranger steals my bag as I walk down the street. Intuitively, I can blame her. But what is my relationship to her? “Do we have a re
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