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    When there are no relevant moral differences between two ... — Carmelics
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    When there are no relevant moral differences between two situations and the moral import of one's responses to them differs, both responses cannot be morally justified.

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    • 1.Moral justification requires consistency across relevantly similar situations.
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    • 2.If two situations are morally equivalent, a divergence in moral response means at least one response is unjustified.
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    • 1.Agent-relative moral theories (Nagel, Scheffler) permit divergent responses to equivalent situations based on the agent's special obligations, relationships, or perspective.
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    • 2.A parent who saves their own child over a stranger is not unjustified even if the situations are abstractly equivalent, because agent-relative prerogatives are themselves morally legitimate grounds for differential response.
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    • 3.Therefore, divergent moral import in equivalent situations can reflect legitimate agent-relative justification rather than inconsistency, undermining the claim's universal scope.
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    • 1.Moral particularism (Dancy) holds that features grounding justification in one case may be irrelevant or reversed in another, so 'no relevant moral differences' is never fully establishable.
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    • 2.If no two situations are ever genuinely morally identical under particularism, the antecedent condition of the claim is never satisfied, rendering it practically vacuous.
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    Recent developments regarding moral consistency reasoning underline the role of emotion in moral reasoning (Campbell and Kumar 2012, 2013; Kumar and Campbell 2012, 2016; Campbell 2014, 2017 see also Wong 2002 on analogical moral reasoning). Return to Singer’s example of a man seeing a toddler about to drown in a shallow pond and knowing that the only cost of saving her life would be ruining his new suit. One can be expected to have feelings of strong disapproval toward anyone who did not try to
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