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    It is not the case that Scanlon's own account in 'What We Owe to Each Other' treats impaired relationships as matters of degree, not binary states triggered by single acts.

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    • 1.Some relationship-damaging acts (infidelity, profound betrayal) function as categorical ruptures that cannot be reduced to continuous gradations.
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    • 2.If relationships are matters of degree, the claim that we 'owe' others something becomes vague—duties either bind us or they don't.
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    • 1.Relationships exhibit gradual erosion—trust weakens incrementally through repeated minor breaches, not suddenly through single violations.
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    • 2.Scanlon's contractualist framework requires assessing whether principles permitting acts are rejectable, a process that admits degrees of justification.
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    • 3.Empirically, people experience relationship damage as scalar: some betrayals are forgivable while identical acts in other contexts prove irreparable.
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