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    It is not the case that The intuitive judgment that parents are owed more concern than others has great plausibility

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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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    • 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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