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    If contractualist blame requires positing a universal 're... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Contractualist blame can apply to total strangers, not only those within close personal relationships

    If contractualist blame requires positing a universal 'relationship' with strangers, this trivializes the concept of relationship itself.

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    • 1.Relationships require mutual recognition, shared history, and particularity; universal ties lack these constitutive features.
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    • 2.Calling all human connections 'relationships' empties the term of meaning by erasing distinctions between intimacy and mere coexistence.
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    • 3.Contractualist blame grounded in universal relationship risks obscuring our actual moral duties, which vary by relational context.
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    • 1.Relationships can be thin yet real: shared membership in moral community creates genuine relational standing without intimacy.
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    • 2.The concept of relationship needn't be binary; degrees of relationship can accommodate both strangers and intimates coherently.
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    • 3.Contractualism's universal relationship explains equal standing in blame practices without requiring identical relationships everywhere.
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