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    The intuitive judgment that parents are owed more concern... — Carmelics
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    The intuitive judgment that parents are owed more concern than others has great plausibility

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    • 1.Parents are the source of one's life and nurturance
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    • 2.Being the source of one's life and nurturance grounds a stronger obligation of concern
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    • 1.Moral concern grounded in causal origin commits a genetic fallacy: the source of a benefit does not determine its moral weight.
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    • 2.Parents who fulfill biological roles without genuine care or virtue have weaker claims to filial concern than non-relatives who nurture well.
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    • 3.Confucians like Mozi argued that partial concern for kin over strangers produces social harm that universally impartial care would prevent.
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    • 1.Kantian ethics holds that moral obligations derive from rational agency and dignity, which all persons possess equally regardless of relational proximity.
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    • 2.Privileging parents as a class entrenches morally arbitrary features—birth and biological connection—as grounds for differential treatment.
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    Two issues arise from this response to Mohism as he understood it (whether he understood it correctly will be addressed in section 3). One issue is whether Mencius has sufficient warrant to trust the kinds of intuitive judgments he attributes to human nature. Mencius holds that the beginnings of morality are sent by Heaven, but in the absence of such a metaphysical warrant, can these intuitive judgments be accepted, particularly the ones that underwrite care with distinctions? Doubt about the me
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