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    Grounding a duty to die in relational burdens makes the d... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→A person may have a duty to die in order to relieve family members or loved ones of burdens imposed by that person's continued living.

    Grounding a duty to die in relational burdens makes the duty's existence dependent on the emotional and financial circumstances of others, producing morally arbitrary obligations.

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    • 1.Moral duties should be grounded in universal principles, not contingent facts about specific people's emotional states.
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    • 2.If duty-to-die obligations vary based on whether relatives happen to be burdened, identical situations create different moral requirements.
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    • 3.Relational burdens are largely outside the dying person's control, making them unsuitable foundations for their moral obligations.
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    • 1.All duties are relational in some sense—promise-keeping depends on others existing; this doesn't make them arbitrary.
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    • 2.Moral arbitrariness concerns only duties grounded in morally irrelevant features; relational impact on loved ones is morally relevant.
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    • 3.Concrete circumstances must inform duties or morality becomes detached from the actual human situations it governs.
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