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    Impartialist moral theories (consequentialism and deontology) must understand friendship to be inherently biased and therefore not inherently moral.

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    • 1.Friendship essentially involves special concern for the friend.
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    • 2.Such special concern constitutes partiality toward the friend.
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    • 3.Consequentialism and deontology require impartiality as a condition of full moral appropriateness.
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    • 1.Consequentialism permits partiality when partial behavior systematically produces better aggregate outcomes than enforced impartiality.
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    • 2.Friendship reliably produces goods—trust, emotional development, social stability—that impartial agents could not replicate at scale.
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    • 3.Therefore, consequentialism can endorse friendship not despite its partiality but because of the impartially-assessed value of partial relationships.
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    • 1.Railton's sophisticated consequentialism distinguishes between the criterion of rightness and the decision procedure agents should internalize.
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    • 2.An agent who deliberates as a friend rather than as an impartial calculator may better satisfy the consequentialist criterion than one who does not.
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    • 3.The claim falsely assumes impartialist theories require impartial motivation at every moment, rather than impartial justification at the theoretical level.
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    Blum (1980) (portions of which are reprinted with slight modifications in Blum 1993) and Friedman (1993), pick up on this contrast between the impartiality of consequentialism and deontology and the inherent partiality of friendship, and argue more directly for a rejection of such moral theories. Consequentialists and deontologists must think that relationships like friendship essentially involve a kind of special concern for the friend and that such relationships therefore demand that one’s act
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