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    It is not the case that 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.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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    • 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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