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    Privileging parents as a class entrenches morally arbitra... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The intuitive judgment that parents are owed more concern than others has great plausibility

    Privileging parents as a class entrenches morally arbitrary features—birth and biological connection—as grounds for differential treatment.

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    • 1.Morally arbitrary features (race, caste, birth) should never justify unequal treatment under principles of fairness and equal moral status.
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    • 2.Non-biological caregivers can provide identical nurturing, emotional support, and life guidance as biological parents.
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    • 3.Biological connection alone creates no special moral obligations others lack toward the same child's welfare.
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    • 1.Biological connection generates unique causal responsibility: parents created the child's existence and dependency.
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    • 2.Parental authority reflects justified partiality—just as friendship involves non-arbitrary but morally legitimate preferences.
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    • 3.Dissolving parental privilege would destabilize the primary institutions families rely on to sustain intergenerational care and social continuity.
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