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    Supports→Special obligations generate agent-relative reasons that structurally override, not merely outweigh, competing general duties in cases of genuine conflict.

    If special obligations merely outweighed general duties, their normative force would be contingent on circumstantial weight-calculations rather than constitutive of the relationship.

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    Key Terms

    General duties(as used in ethics)
    Basic ethical responsibilities you have toward everyone equally, like not lying or treating people with basic respect.
    Weight-calculations(as used in ethics)
    The process of comparing different moral reasons or duties to see which one is stronger or more important in a given situation.
    constitutive(an alternative type of relationship the grounding relation might be)
    Describes how something is made up of or formed from basic components that define its essential nature.
    contingent(De Interpretatione 12–13)
    Equated with 'possible'; on the two-sided interpretation, contingency excludes necessity (possibility implies non-necessity).
    normative force(Used to describe what Korsgaard's account aims to explain)

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    The property in virtue of which an agent's reasons are binding on the agent.
    special obligations(Used to ask whether group membership — even in a just group — generates duties beyond general morality)
    Obligations owed specifically to members of a particular group, as distinct from general moral duties owed to all persons

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