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    It is not the case that If the tension between cosmopolitan and local obligations lacks a principled resolution, institutional design and individual deliberation face genuine, practically unresolvable dilemmas rather than manageable trade-offs.

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    • 1.Practical unresolvability differs from lack of principled resolution; we manage genuine value conflicts through bounded rationality and satisficing, not principle.
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    • 2.Many institutional designs (conditional aid, subsidiarity, tiered citizenship) demonstrably balance these obligations better than alternatives without requiring absolute solutions.
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    • 3.Declaring dilemmas 'unresolvable in principle' may be a counsel of despair that discourages the creative problem-solving that has historically transformed seemingly irreconcilable conflicts.
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    • 1.Moral obligations to distant strangers and compatriots rest on fundamentally incompatible principles that cannot be hierarchically ranked.
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    • 2.History shows institutional attempts to balance these obligations systematically fail, suggesting the problem is structural, not merely contingent.
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    • 3.If a dilemma admits principled resolution, decision-makers could justify their choice to all affected parties; cosmopolitan-local tensions systematically resist this.
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