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    Supports→It is unclear whether the moral relationship is sufficient to explain the blame of strangers.

    Without a shared history of interaction, the moral relationship between strangers is too thin to generate the normative expectations whose violation constitutes the core of blameworthy conduct.

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    Key Terms

    Constitutes(used to explain how practice creates the concept of responsibility)
    Forms or makes up the basis of something; creates the foundation for how something exists or works.
    blameworthy conduct(in ethics)
    Behavior that is wrong enough that it's fair to hold someone responsible and criticize them for it.
    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.
    normative expectations(social norm theory)
    Expectations about what others believe ought to be done, as distinct from empirical expectations about what others will actually do.
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