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The contingency of moral commitments does not undermine their normative force

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1.Love is both contingent and compelling
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2.By analogy, moral commitments can be contingent yet retain compelling normative force
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1.Normative force requires that a commitment's authority be grounded in something beyond the contingent perspective of the agent who holds it.
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2.A commitment arising from contingent causes (culture, upbringing, biology) provides no rational basis for binding others who lack that same contingent history.
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3.Moral obligations, unlike love, make universalizable demands on all rational agents, so the analogy to love's contingency is structurally disanalogous.
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