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    Institutional co-membership generates special obligations... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Egalitarianism faces a dilemma between being parochial and being utopian

    Institutional co-membership generates special obligations without implying global demands are incoherent or that the restriction is merely arbitrary.

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    • 1.Shared institutional structures create reciprocal dependencies that ground obligations distinct from universal moral duties.
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    • 2.Special obligations can coexist with global demands; prioritizing co-members doesn't deny obligations to distant strangers.
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    • 3.Institutional partiality reflects rational coordination: members jointly create systems requiring mutual commitment for stability.
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    • 1.If institutional membership generates obligations, the principle explaining this applies equally to all human institutional memberships.
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    • 2.Restricting obligations to co-members without principled criteria risks arbitrary favoritism indistinguishable from nepotism.
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    • 3.Global demands on resources and aid compete with special obligations; priority claims require justification, not mere assertion.
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