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    The parent-child analogy (P3) fails because parental duti... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→We have obligations to aid and support our friends that go well beyond obligations to help strangers

    The parent-child analogy (P3) fails because parental duties derive from voluntary procreative acts and dependency, not mere affection or mutual choice.

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    • 1.Procreation is a voluntary act that causally creates dependency; this causal responsibility grounds duties in ways mutual affection alone cannot.
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    • 2.Duties based on voluntary assumption of risk (procreation) are categorically different from duties based on emotional preference or contract.
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    • 3.Children's vulnerability and inability to consent creates asymmetrical obligations that affection-based relationships don't explain or justify.
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    • 1.Parents often report that affection and mutual choice generate obligations equal to or exceeding those from procreation itself—a common experience the claim dismisses.
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    • 2.Adoptive parents have identical parental duties despite lacking procreative acts, suggesting duty-source is not procreation but the relationship itself.
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    • 3.Voluntary assumption of risk explains many duties, but dependency plus relationship recognition may be sufficient; procreation may be neither necessary nor sufficient.
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