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    Ross's prima facie duties are not context-neutral abstrac... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The values at stake in a choice situation cannot on their own determine how heavily they weigh in that particular choice situation.

    Ross's prima facie duties are not context-neutral abstractions but duty-types whose binding force is constitutively tied to the morally relevant features of situations.

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    • 1.Ross himself emphasized that prima facie duties require judgment about which duty outweighs others, implying context-sensitivity.
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    • 2.A duty to keep promises binds differently when promise-keeping prevents serious harm versus minor inconvenience, showing situational variation.
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    • 3.Moral realism requires that duty-binding properties depend on actual features of situations, not abstract formulations disconnected from reality.
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    • 1.If duty-binding force varies with context, Ross's theory collapses into particularism and loses the categorical structure he explicitly defended.
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    • 2.Duty-types like fidelity can be defined as abstract principles whose applicability conditions are separate from their binding force itself.
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    • 3.Making binding force constitutively context-dependent makes it impossible to teach or communicate moral duties across different situations.
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