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    It is not the case that Society does not have a moral claim on its members' labor, talents, or virtue that compels contribution to societal well-being regardless of harm to the individual

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    • 1.Membership in political society generates reciprocal obligations grounded in the receipt of ongoing benefits and protections (Rawls, TJ §19).
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    • 2.Where one's continued existence constitutes a necessary condition for discharging those obligations, self-destruction can constitute a defection from fair cooperative terms.
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    • 3.The moral permissibility of a self-regarding act cannot be established solely by appealing to the absence of blame for lesser omissions of the same duty.
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    • 1.On Kantian grounds, rational agency is the condition of possibility for all moral value, creating a duty to preserve it that is not reducible to individual preference (Groundwork 4:429).
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    • 2.A duty grounded in the preconditions of morality itself is categorically distinct from contingent social demands, and survives the objection that society lacks proprietary claims over labor or talent.
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    • 1.Individuals frequently fail to contribute their full labor or special talents to society without incurring moral blame
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    • 2.If failure to contribute fully does not generate moral blame, then full contribution cannot be morally required
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    • 3.Individuals are not morally required to benefit society in every way they are capable, regardless of harm to themselves
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