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    It is not the case that The wrongness of severing intimate relationships is grounded in the relational interests of both parties, not mere causal or biological connection.

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    • 1.Relational interests themselves may derive from biological/causal bonds; grounding wrongness in interests doesn't exclude biology.
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    • 2.Parents cannot fully consent to or revoke obligations toward dependent children, yet most believe abandonment remains deeply wrong.
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    • 3.If wrongness requires mutual relational interests, one-sided love or commitment becomes morally irrelevant, which seems incomplete.
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    • 1.Moral obligations arise from what parties actually value and consent to, not from natural facts alone.
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    • 2.Two people can share biology yet lack relational interests; conversely, unrelated people can develop deep mutual interests.
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    • 3.If wrongness tracked mere biology, surrogacy and adoption would be as morally fraught as abandonment, which most reject.
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