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    It is not the case that Contractualist blame can apply to total strangers, not only those within close personal relationships

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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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    • 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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