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    Special obligations to co-nationals are grounded in parti... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Partiality to co-nationals need not conflict with cosmopolitan obligations

    Special obligations to co-nationals are grounded in particularist relationships that generate duties prior to and independent of any global institutional order.

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    • 1.Shared political membership creates reciprocal relationships with fellow citizens that generate mutual obligations independent of global structures.
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    • 2.Particularist duties based on special relationships (family, community) are foundational to ethics and precede abstract universal principles.
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    • 3.Co-nationals share collective institutions and democratic processes that create special responsibilities not owed to distant strangers.
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    • 1.Co-national status itself depends on pre-existing global institutional arrangements (nation-states), so obligations cannot be truly prior to institutions.
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    • 2.Particularist relationships are morally arbitrary; accident of birth shouldn't ground stronger duties than universal human vulnerability and need.
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    • 3.If special co-national obligations are truly independent of institutions, they should hold equally for stateless peoples, which seems implausible.
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