We have obligations to aid and support our friends that g... — Carmelics

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We have obligations to aid and support our friends that go well beyond obligations to help strangers

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1.Friendship involves special duties that arise out of the relationship of friendship itself
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2.Special duties to specific persons are grounded in the particular relationship one has with them
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3.Just as parents have special duties to aid and support their children because they are their children, friends have analogous special duties to one another
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1.Impartial moral theories (Singer, Godwin) hold that equal suffering deserves equal moral weight regardless of relational proximity.
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2.Preferential treatment of friends over strangers with equal needs represents a form of morally arbitrary partiality.
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3.If the grounds for special duties are mere causal history of association, they cannot generate genuine normative obligations.
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