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    Challenges→A global equality requirement is deeply counterintuitive

    When obligations arise from harm causation rather than mere beneficence, the 'demanding burden on behalf of strangers' framing fundamentally mischaracterizes the moral relationship.

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    Demanding burden on behalf of strangers(as used in ethics)
    A way of framing the idea that helping people you don't know or have no connection to is an unreasonably difficult expectation to place on you.
    Harm causation(as used in ethics)
    When you're responsible for causing damage or injury to someone else.
    Obligations(as used in ethics)
    Duties or responsibilities you have — things you're supposed to do because they're right or required.
    beneficence(Used as the practical expression of the ideal of love of humanity)
    The practice of doing good to others, presented here as the means through which love of humanity is expressed
    mischaracterizes(what conditioning political expression does to national self-determination)

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    Describes something inaccurately or in a misleading way—getting the nature or basis of something wrong.
    moral relationship(Invoked by Scanlon to explain how blame of strangers is possible on his relationship-based account of blame.)
    The relationship in which, according to Scanlon, all rational agents stand to one another.

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