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    It is not the case that It is proper for those who can afford it to support strangers in non-emergency situations

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    • 1.Rand's ethics holds that one's own life and rational self-interest are the standard of moral value, making altruistic obligations self-contradictory.
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    • 2.Treating strangers as ends requiring one's resources subordinates the productive individual's values to the needs of others without consent or reciprocity.
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    • 3.A morality that demands support for strangers implicitly treats human need as a claim on others' effort, which Rand argues sanctions a form of moral parasitism.
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    • 1.Robert Nozick argues in Anarchy, State, and Utopia that holdings acquired justly impose no further distributive obligations on their owners.
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    • 2.Voluntary capacity to give does not generate a moral duty to give, since 'can' does not entail 'ought' without a prior normative framework one is not bound to accept.
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    • 3.Imposing propriety norms on private wealth allocation violates the separateness of persons by treating individuals as means to aggregate welfare.
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    • 1.People who are unable to work must rely on voluntary charity
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    • 2.Those who can afford to give are capable of providing such support
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