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    Challenges→The tension between cosmopolitanism and local attachments is real but unproblematic

    If local attachments are constitutive of moral agency itself, cosmopolitan demands do not merely conflict with them but systematically undermine the conditions for any coherent moral life.

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    constitutive of(as used in metaphysics)
    Something that is essential to making something what it is—if you remove it, the thing is no longer that thing.
    cosmopolitan demands(as used in ethics)
    Moral expectations that you should care equally about all humans everywhere, treating people from distant places with the same concern you have for your own community.
    local attachments(as used in ethics)
    Your deep personal connections and loyalties to specific people, communities, or places—like your family, hometown, or country—that shape how you see the world and make decisions.
    moral agency(Debated in the context of whether AI systems can qualify as moral agents)
    The status of being an entity toward which others have moral duties, and which may itself bear moral duties.

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    systematically undermine(as used in philosophy)
    To gradually weaken or damage something in a thorough, organized way—not by accident, but as an inevitable consequence of a system or approach.

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