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    The relationship with Joe is impaired — Carmelics
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    The relationship with Joe is impaired

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    • 1.Joe laughed at cruel jokes at the speaker's expense
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    • 2.Laughing at cruel jokes at a friend's expense reveals attitudes inconsistent with friendship
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    • 3.A friendship is impaired when one party holds attitudes inconsistent with friendship
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    • 1.Aristotle distinguishes between virtuous friendship and friendships of utility or pleasure, where occasional moral failures do not dissolve the bond.
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    • 2.A single instance of laughing at a cruel joke may reflect weakness of will (akrasia) rather than a stable character disposition hostile to friendship.
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    • 3.Aristotle holds that genuine friendships of virtue survive moral lapses when the overall character of the friend remains admirable and the lapse is acknowledged.
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    • 1.Scanlon's own account in 'What We Owe to Each Other' treats impaired relationships as matters of degree, not binary states triggered by single acts.
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    • 2.The supporting argument conflates evidence of attitudinal inconsistency with the conclusion that the relationship is impaired, without establishing threshold conditions.
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    Suppose I discover that my close friend Joe laughed at cruel jokes at my expense at last week’s party. (Scanlon 2008, pp. 129–30) Joe’s behaviour clearly reveals attitudes that are inconsistent with friendship. I may therefore conclude that my relationship with Joe is impaired, and adjust my own attitudes or behaviour accordingly.
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