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    It is not the case that The tension between cosmopolitanism and local attachments is real but unproblematic

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    • 1.Communitarian thinkers like Walzer and MacIntyre argue that moral obligations are constitutively embedded in particular communities, not merely contingently limited by them.
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    • 2.If local attachments are constitutive of moral agency itself, cosmopolitan demands do not merely conflict with them but systematically undermine the conditions for any coherent moral life.
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    • 3.A tension that erodes the foundation of moral selfhood cannot be dismissed as unproblematic without begging the question against communitarian moral psychology.
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    • 1.Sidgwick and later Scheffler demonstrated that agent-relative permissions create irreducible asymmetries between impartial and partial demands that no unified moral theory has successfully dissolved.
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    • 2.If the tension between cosmopolitan and local obligations lacks a principled resolution, institutional design and individual deliberation face genuine, practically unresolvable dilemmas rather than manageable trade-offs.
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    • 3.Calling a tension 'unproblematic' while it generates irresolvable first-order moral conflicts conflates theoretical acknowledgment of tension with the practical problem of action guidance.
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    • 1.Conflict between cosmopolitan obligations and local attachments is inevitable
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    • 2.Acknowledging this conflict is a necessary part of understanding what cosmopolitanism entails
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    • 3.The existence of such conflict does not undermine cosmopolitanism
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