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    It is not the case that The care ethics tradition represents a sustained, empirically-grounded philosophical challenge to equality-based accounts of friendship rooted in feminist and disability scholarship.

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    • 1.Descriptive facts about how friendships function empirically don't automatically refute normative claims about what friendship should require.
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    • 2.Care ethics risks romanticizing dependency relationships; equality-based accounts protect against exploitation in asymmetrical friendships.
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    • 3.Many successful friendships do exhibit mutual recognition and reciprocal exchange, suggesting equality-based accounts capture important cases.
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    • 1.Disability scholarship reveals friendships thrive on interdependence and asymmetrical care, not reciprocal equality as traditionally theorized.
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    • 2.Feminist empirical research documents that actual friendships involve varying needs and capacities, contradicting equality-based philosophical models.
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    • 3.Care ethics grounded in lived experience better captures how vulnerability and responsiveness constitute genuine friendship bonds.
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