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    Social duties arise exclusively from voluntary covenant, ... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Human beings have a natural duty towards society and the cosmic order, not only towards themselves.

    Social duties arise exclusively from voluntary covenant, not from innate disposition or cosmic function, making them contingent rather than natural.

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    • 1.Pre-social humans lack moral obligations; duties emerge only when individuals explicitly agree to social contracts.
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    • 2.Natural law theories cannot explain why duties vary radically across cultures and historical periods.
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    • 3.Grounding duties in voluntary consent respects individual autonomy better than imposing duties via nature or cosmos.
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    • 1.Children and the cognitively disabled have social duties despite never voluntarily covenanting—covenant theory cannot account for this.
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    • 2.Pure voluntarism paradoxically requires a prior duty to honor covenants, suggesting duties cannot be exclusively contractual.
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    • 3.Humans exhibit universal cooperative instincts and reciprocal altruism across all societies, suggesting innate moral foundations.
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