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... ... @@ -1,53 +1,0 @@ 1 -Part 1 – Framework 2 -Justice is comprised of recognition and redistribution. Moral frameworks need to encompass both in order to function. Fraser 01 3 -Nancy Fraser, 20’01, “Recognition without ethics?”, Nancy Fraser is an American critical theorist, feminist, and the Henry A. and Louise Loeb Professor of Political and Social Science and professor of philosophy at The New School in New York City, https://www.google.com/search?q=nancy+fraserandoq=nancy+fraserandaqs=chrome..69i57.2448j0j4andsourceid=chromeandie=UTF-8 4 -For some time...recognition of difference. 5 - 6 -Participatory parity provides a method to both identify and remedy injustice. Fraser 2 7 -Nancy, 2001, “Recognition without ethics?”, Nancy Fraser is an American critical theorist, feminist, and the Henry A. and Louise Loeb Professor of Political and Social Science and professor of philosophy at The New School in New York City, https://www.google.com/search?q=nancy+fraserandoq=nancy+fraserandaqs=chrome..69i57.2448j0j4andsourceid=chromeandie=UTF-8 8 -How, then, should...recognition of difference. 9 - 10 -Analytic 11 - 12 -The status model fosters participatory parity. Fraser 3 13 -Nancy, 2001, “Recognition without ethics?”, Nancy Fraser is an American critical theorist, feminist, and the Henry A. and Louise Loeb Professor of Political and Social Science and professor of philosophy at The New School in New York City, https://www.google.com/search?q=nancy+fraserandoq=nancy+fraserandaqs=chrome..69i57.2448j0j4andsourceid=chromeandie=UTF-8 14 -The key to...shall argue next 15 - 16 -Analytic 17 - 18 -Squo doctrine of QI is bad Wright 15 19 -Sam Wright, Nov. 3 2015. Sam Wright is a public interest lawyer in Seattle focusing exclusively on governments and nonprofits for a decade, and has authored/coauthored over a thousand law reviews. (“Want to Fight Police Misconduct? Reform Qualified Immunity” http://abovethelaw.com/2015/11/want-to-fight-police-misconduct-reform-qualified-immunity/ 20 -I think Megan...make it happen. 21 - 22 -The abuse of police power upon black bodies is legally justified- departmental policy allows gross violations of constitutional and human rights. Cardabo 16 23 -Cardabo (“Blue-on-Black Violence: A Provisional Model of Some of the Causes” https://poseidon01.ssrn.com/delivery.php ID=673064096005020124027029102096025100001024071012061053073118029088121011070115096091011099101107042108110072119028077103081106031034078007004004104014023106102120059039091020116004108105001112098065100003029096075013022123071127119097078102115004067andEXT=pdf) DEVON W. CARBADO, 2016 24 -No single model...the Fourth Amendment.” 25 - 26 -Qualified immunity protects officers who have clearly broken the law because the standards for being clearly established are far too high. 27 -Philip, “An "Objectively Reasonable" Criticism of the Doctrine of Qualified Immunity in Excessive Force Cases Brought Under 42 U.S.C. § 1983”, Brigham Young University Journal of Public Law, March 1st, Accessed November 10th, Online: http://digitalcommons.law.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1459andcontext=jpl – MG 28 -Apart from the...overcome qualified immunity. 29 - 30 -Thus the plan text: The United States ought to limit qualified immunity for police officers by changing the clearly established clause to a burden of evidence on the defendant 31 -CX check all spec, theory, and T interps to prevent needless theory. Substantive debate outweighs because its applicable in the real world. 32 -Williams 12 advocates for the plan: 33 -(John C. Williams. Doctor of Jurisprudence, May 2012, Vanderbilt University Law School. “Qualifying Qualified Immunity.” Vanderbilt Law Review. Vol. 65:4:1295. 2012 — KW) 34 -“Because the fact-specific...a constitutional violation.” 35 - 36 -Civil suits in constitutional rights violations are distinctly important in recognizing the importance of individuals who have their rights violated by government officials, even when the financial liability may be addressed by the government. Armacost 89 37 -(Barbara E. Armacost 51 Vand. L. Rev. 583 (1998) “Qualified Immunity- Ignorance Excused” J.D. University of Virginia School of Law 1989 M.T.S. Regent College of the University of British Columbia 1984 B.S. University of Virginia 1976 ) 38 -Turning to section...clear constitutional impropriety. 39 - 40 -Civil recourse is key to individual recognition of status and authority of the plaintiffs, empowering them. Solomon 10 41 -Solomon ’10 (Jason M. Solomon. Associate Professor, College of William and Mary Law School. “What is Civil Justice” Loyola Of Los Angeles Law Review. Vol. 44:317. Fall 2010. http://scholarship.law.wm.edu/facpubs/1149 — KW) 42 -“Consistent with the...to the one wronged. 49” 43 - 44 -Analytic 45 - 46 -Civil suits against police officers for constitutional rights violations are uniquely important to address discrimination and rights abuses Nixa 16 47 -(Dan Nixa, May 6, 2016 “On the importance of civil rights lawsuits”, https://chicagocivilrightslaw.com/a-short-history-on-the-importance-of-civil-rights-lawsuits/ Dan attended Vanderbilt University Law School. At Vanderbilt, Dan won the second-year mock trial championship, participated in moot court, and was a member of a law journal. 48 -University Nebraska at Omaha, Summa Cum Laude, Economics with honors. Dan was selected for outstanding achievement in his major, and awarded the Vice Chancellor’s Leadership Award for his volunteer work in the community.) 49 -To understand this...best course of action 50 - 51 -The state is inevitable – refusal to engage in traditional politics cedes the policy sphere to authoritarian elites and abdicates social responsibility – that makes all crises inevitable Boggs ‘97 52 -(Carl, Professor of Political Science – National University, Theory and Society 26, December, p. 773-4) 53 -The decline of...from civil society. - EntryDate
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... ... @@ -1,99 +1,0 @@ 1 -1AC 2 -Framework 3 - 4 -The Role of the Ballot is to roleplay as policymakers since this is the best way to achieve real world education. 5 -Joyner 99, Professor International Law @ Georgetwon, 99 (Christopher "TEACHING INTERNATIONAL LAW: VIEWS FROM AN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS POLITICAL SCIENTIST" ILSA Journal of International and Comparative Law, Spring, 5 ILSA J Int'l and Comp L 377) 6 - Use of the debate can be an effective pedagogical tool for education in 7 -AND 8 -real world of policy analysis,political critique, and legal defense. 9 - 10 -Util is the only ethical system available to policymakers. 11 -Goodin 95 – Professor of Philosophy at the Research School of the Social Sciences at the Australian National University (Robert E., Cambridge University Press, "Utilitarianism As a Public Philosophy" pg 63) 12 -My larger argument turns on the proposition that there is something special about the situation 13 -AND 14 -, aggregates and averages is just not sufficiently fine-grained for that. 15 - 16 -Thus the standard is maximizing well being. 17 -AND voluntary political participation is a fundamental ideal of democracy. 18 -Maria Eremenko, "Political participation: Model by Verba in the EU and Russia", National Research University, http://www.culturaldiplomacy.org/academy/content/pdf/participant-papers/eu/Maria-Eremenko-Political-participation-Model-by-Verba-in-the-EU-and-Russia.pdf 19 -"Political participation affords citizens in a democracy an opportunity to communicate information to government 20 -AND 21 -news, discussing politics with friends etc.), but "doing politics" 3 22 - 23 -Contention 1 Democracy participation: 24 - 25 -QI serves to shield police from accountability 26 -The WSW is published by the International Committee of the Fourth International, the leadership of the world socialist movement, the Fourth International founded by Leon Trotsky in 1938. The WSWS aims to meet the need, felt widely today, for an intelligent appraisal of the problems of contemporary society. It addresses itself to the masses of people who are dissatisfied with the present state of social life, as well as its cynical and reactionary treatment by the establishment media.;wsws.org; US Supreme Court Expands Immunity for Killer Cops; 15; https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/11/12/pers-n12.html 27 -With the death toll from police brutality continuing to mount, the US Supreme Court 28 -AND 29 -mass repression and dictatorship in response to the growth of working class opposition. 30 - 31 -Police violence leads to lack of political participation. 32 -Liz Adetiba is a Politics Intern at The Huffington Post. She is a rising senior at the University of Chicago where she studies political science and human rights. You can reach her at liz.adetiba@huffingtonpost.com.; huffingtonpost.com; Watching Videos of Police Brutality Can Traumatize You, Especially if You're Black; 16; http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/watching-police-brutality-videos_us_577ee9b3e4b0344d514eaa5d 33 -Jarrod Doyle was relaxing with friends on July 5 when the hashtag ~#AltonSterling popped 34 -AND 35 -if you don't watch, you can't participate in the society." 36 - 37 - 38 -Contention 2 Impacts: 39 -Democide 40 - 41 -Democracies check political violence 42 -Timmerman 14 (Ashley M. Timmerman, BA at University of Central Florida, Summer 2014, "WHEN LEADERS REPRESS: A STUDY OF AFRICAN STATE," http://etd.fcla.edu/CF/CFE0005428/Masters_thesis_final.pdf MV) 43 -Several alternate causal mechanisms are proposed to explain this finding. Joseph Young (2009 44 -AND 45 -with a multiparty system before a significant improvement in human rights practices is achieved 46 - 47 -Disease: 48 - 49 -Democracy is a prerequisite to effectively combatting disease 50 -Ruger 05, (Jennifer Prah, "Democracy and health". Harvard University, PhD, Health Policy. Yale University, MSL, Law. Oxford University, MSc, Comparative Social Research. Tufts University, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, MA, International Relations. (Qualified as hell) http://qjmed.oxfordjournals.org/content/qjmed/98/4/299.full.pdf 51 -Democratic institutions and practices can affect human development in multiple ways, including population health 52 -AND 53 -before it loses millions of its citizens to yet another public health tragedy. 54 - 55 -Diseases causes extinction 56 -DUJS 09, (Dartmouth Undergraduate Journal of Science, "Human Extinction: The Uncertainty of Our Fate", http://dujs.dartmouth.edu/spring-2009/human-extinction-the-uncertainty-of-our-fate) 57 -RIP Homo sapiens A pandemic will kill off all humans. In the past, 58 -AND 59 -could only infect birds — into a human-viable strain (10). 60 - 61 -War 62 - 63 -Democracy is a critical impact filter - checks escalation for all wars 64 -Hamburg 10, (David A., President Emeritus at Carnegie Corporation of New York, previously President of the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences and President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, previously chair of the department of psychiatry at Stanford, M.D. from Indiana University, "Recent advances in preventing mass violence") 65 -Democracies thrive by finding ways to deal fairly with conflicts and resolve them below the 66 -AND 67 -processes of mutual accommodation, offer the best chance for nonviolent conflict resolution. 68 - 69 -Economy 70 - 71 -Democracies lead in economic growth, development, crises management, political stability, and low inequality 72 -Karakaya et. al 15 (Ugur Karakaya, the Gaziosmanpasa University Hasan Bulent Kantarci, Kocaeli University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, department of economics, "The Relationship between Democracy, Freedom, and Economic Development", World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology International Journal of Social, Behavioral, Educational, Economic and Management Engineering Vol:9, No:6, 2015, http://www.waset.org/publications/10001565, al) 73 -Democracy happens to be one of the main features required for economic growth and 74 -AND 75 -our research results, democracy has a positive impact on economic development. 76 - 77 -Environment 78 - 79 -Empirical studies prove that democracies have more environmental protection than nondemocracies 80 -Bernauer et al. 13 (Thomas Bernauer, professor of political science at ETH Zurich, Tobias Böhmelt, Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the Department of Government at the University of Essex, "National climate policies in international comparison: The Climate Change Cooperation Index", Environmental Science and Policy 25 (2013) 196 – 206, 1/13 81 -To examine possible analytical implications of such differences, we revisit a rather well- 82 -AND 83 -et al., 2003; Ba¨ttig and Bernauer, 2009). 84 - 85 -Nuclear War 86 - 87 -Democratic consolidation is key to prevent nuclear war 88 -Muravchik, 2001 (Joshua, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, "Democracy and Nuclear Peace", http://www.npec-web.org/syllabi/muravchik.htm) 89 -That Freedom House could count 120 freely elected governments by early 2001 (out of 90 -AND 91 -yet exist but where the prospects for democracy may be still more remote. 92 - 93 -Ethnic War 94 - 95 -Democracy is the only system that can reduce ethnic conflict 96 -Timothy D. Sisk, 8-1-2003, "Democracy and Conflict Management," Beyond Intractability Project, The Conflict Information Consortium, University Of Colorado, http://www.beyondintractability.org/essay/democ-con-manag MV 97 -Of the range of tools available to conflict resolution practitioners to manage intractable conflicts, 98 -AND 99 -democracy may contribute to or help exacerbate intractable conflict is a critical concern. - EntryDate
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... ... @@ -1,0 +1,24 @@ 1 +1. Agency is set apart from other enterprises in that it is inescapable 2 +(Luca Ferrero, “Constitutivism and the Inescapability of Agency”. Oxford Studies in Metaethics, vol. IV, Jan 12, 2009.(https://pantherfile.uwm.edu/ferrero/www/pubs/ferrero-constitutivism.pdf) Professor of Philosophy, University of Wesconsin at Milwaukee.) 3 + The initial appeal of the shmagency objection rests on the impression that there is a close analogy between agency and ordinary enterprises. If one can stand outside of chess and question whether there is any reason to play this game, why couldnʼt one stand outside of agency and wonder whether there is any reason to play the agency game? The problem with this suggestion is that the analogy does not hold. Agency is a very special enterprise. Agency is distinctively ʻinescapable.ʼ This is what sets agency apart from all other enterprises and explains why constitutivism is focused on it rather than on any other enterprise. 3.2 Agency is special under two respects. First, agency is the enterprise with the largest jurisdiction.12 All ordinary enterprises fall under it. To engage in any ordinary enterprise is ipso facto to engage in the enterprise of agency. In addition, there are instances of behavior that fall under no other enterprise but agency. First, intentional transitions in and out of particular enterprises might not count as moves within those enterprises, but they are still instances of intentional agency, of bare intentional agency, so to say. Second, agency is the locus where we adjudicate the merits and demerits of participating in any ordinary enterprise. Reasoning whether to participate in a particular enterprise is often conducted outside of that enterprise, even while one is otherwise engaged in it. Practical reflection is a manifestation of full-fledged intentional agency but it does not necessary belong to any other specific enterprise. Once again, it might be an instance of bare intentional agency. In the limiting case, agency is the only enterprise that would still keep a subject busy if she were to attempt a ʻradical re-evaluation of all of her engagements and at least temporarily suspend her participation in all ordinary enterprises.133.3 The second feature that makes agency stand apart from ordinary enterprises is agencyʼs closure. Agency is closed under the operation of reflective rational assessment. As the case of radical re-evaluations shows, ordinary enterprises are never fully closed under reflection. There is always the possibility of reflecting on their justification while standing outside of them. Not so for rational agency. The constitutive features of agency (no matter whether they are conceived as aims, motives, capacities, commitments, etc.) continue to operate even when the agent is assessing whether she is justified in her engagement in agency. One cannot put agency on hold while trying to determine whether agency is justified because this kind of practical reasoning is the exclusive job of intentional agency. This does not mean that agency falls outside of the reach of reflection. But even reflection about agency is a manifestation of agency. Agency is not necessarily self-reflective but all instances of reflective assessment, including those directed at agency itself, fall under its jurisdiction; they are conducted in deference to the constitutive standards of agency. This kind of closure is unique to agency. What is at work in reflection is the distinctive operation of intentional agency in its discursive mode. What is at work is not simply the subjectʼs capacity to shape her conduct in response to reasons for action but also her capacity both to ask for these reasons and to give them. Hence, agencyʼs closure under reflective rational assessment is closure under agencyʼs own distinctive operation: Agency is closed under itself.15 3.4 To sum up, agency is special because of two distinctive features. First, agency is not the only game in town, but it is the biggest possible one. In addition to instances of bare intentional agency, any engagement in an ordinary enterprise is ipso facto an engagement in the enterprise of agency. Second, agency is closed under rational reflection. It is closed under the self- directed application of its distinctive discursive operation, the asking for and the giving of reasons for action. The combination of these features is what makes agency inescapable. This is the kind of nonoptionality that supports the viability of constitutivism. 4 + 5 + 6 +2. Analytic 7 +3.'' 8 +4.'' 9 +5.'' 10 +6.'' 11 +7. Traditional framing mechanisms don’t assign intrinsic value to special obligations which breaks down reasonability, when a promise is made or you owe a group something it creates a special obligation. 12 +SEP, 2014, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, All entries and substantive updates are refereed by the members of a distinguished Editorial Board before they are made public, Special Obligations, First published Thu Oct 17, 2002; substantive revision Sun Jan 5, 2014, http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/special-obligations/# 13 + What is special about special obligations? One way to answer this question is to contrast special obligations with some type of duty or obligation that is not special. One example of such a ‘non-special’ type of duty or obligation is that recognized by consequentialists. (Special obligations can also be contrasted with another type of non-special duty. See section III). According to one version of consequentialism, the right action is that action which, of all alternatives available to the agent, produces the greatest net sum of intrinsic value, where intrinsic value is value as an end or for its own sake and not merely as a means to something other than itself. (There are, of course, many forms of consequentialism. The important feature of such views for our purposes is that they understand right action as a function of and solely of the consequences (actual, probable, or possible) of the action and its alternatives. (The following discussion presupposes a version of actual consequence act-consequentialism. But the points made apply mutatis mutandis to other versions of consequentialism.) But now consider how, according to the consequentialist, I ought to treat my friends (or family members, or colleagues, ...). If my friend's well-being is no more intrinsically valuable than the well-being of any other person, then I ought to be impartial, at least in my actions, between promoting the good of my friend and promoting the good of a complete stranger. Thus, the mere fact that someone is my friend (or my mother, or my colleague, or my fellow citizen) does not imply that I have any obligations to such a person that I do not have to any and all persons. Similarly, the mere fact that I have promised someone to benefit her in some way does not, considered in itself, imply that I have any obligation to benefit that person: my promisee's good carries no greater weight than does the good of any other person. On the other hand, commonsense morality, in contrast with consequentialism, seems to regard the mere fact that a person is my friend or that I made a promise to that person as morally significant. For example, most people do not think that I am justified in breaking a promise merely because slightly more good would result from my breaking the promise than from my keeping the promise. Similarly, most people think that if I have a choice between benefitting a friend or providing an equal benefit to a stranger that I ought to benefit my friend. Consequentialism, in so far as it diverges from commonsense morality on these points, strikes many as an unacceptable moral theory. Of course, the consequentialist has more than one possible reply to these sorts of worries about her view. First, the consequentialist can argue that, in fact, each person acting so as to benefit her friends, loved ones, promisees, etc., will have the best overall consequences. Promising, for example, is an instrumentally valuable institution, and each of us should do her part to support that institution: one thing that each of us can do is to keep her own promises. Promises also create expectations in their recipients, and the harm of unrealized expectations or hopes needs to be taken into account when we consider whether the breaking of a promise has better consequences than the keeping of a promise. Similarly, each of us ought to take special care of her loved ones, because friendship is a valuable institution. Also, we are well positioned to take care of our loved ones: our efforts are more likely to be efficacious than if we were to attempt to benefit persons distant from us whom we do not know and people often experience greater emotional harm when they are slighted by their intimates than when they are slighted by strangers. As John Stuart Mill remarked in Utilitarianism, “few hurts which human beings can sustain are greater, and none wound more, than when that on which they habitually and with full assurance relied fails them in the hour of need” (59). 14 + 15 +8. Analytic 16 + 17 + 18 +Special Obligations are agent relative reasons for the government to act 19 +SEP, 2014, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, All entries and substantive updates are refereed by the members of a distinguished Editorial Board before they are made public, Special Obligations, First published Thu Oct 17, 2002; substantive revision Sun Jan 5, 2014, http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/special-obligations/# 20 + The discussion of the previous section stressed that the alleged difficulties that consequentialism has in accommodating the commonsense understanding of special obligations arise from the fact that the consequentialist can allow only derivatively, not genuinely, special obligations. Another way to express this point is to say that the consequentialist allows only agent-neutral reasons, whereas special obligations, as understood by commonsense, are agent-relative reasons. Derek Parfit understand ds agent-neutral as opposed to agent-relative reasons in the following way: Suppose we claim that there is a reason to relieve some person's suffering. This reason is objective if it is a reason for everyone – for anyone who could relieve this person's suffering. I call such reasons agent-neutral. ... When I call some reason agent-relative, I am not claiming that this reason cannot be a reason for other agents. All that I am claiming is that it may not be (143). Thomas Nagel explicates the difference between agent-neutral and agent-relative reasons in a slightly different way: If a reason can be given a general form which does not include an essential reference to the person who has it, it is an agent-neutral reason. For example, if it is a reason for anyone to do or want something that it would reduce the amount of wretchedness in the world, then that is a neutral reason. If on the other hand the general form of a reason does include an essential reference to the person who has it, it is an agent-relative reason. For example, if it is a reason for anyone to do or want something that it would be in his interest, then that is a relative reason. In such a case, if something were in Jones's interest but contrary to Smith's, Jones would have reason to want it to happen and Smith would have the same reason to want it not to happen (1986 152–153). Thus, special obligations would be understood by Parfit and Nagel as agent-relative reasons: my reason to take care of my friend by giving her encouraging words may not be shared by anyone else (even when in a position which makes it possible for her to do that), and the “form of the reason … includes an essential reference to the person who has it” – I have reason to give my friend encouraging words. Another way to define agent-neutral reasons is as follows: Agent-Neutral Reason: S’s reason to do or to promote p is an agent-neutral reason if and only if, necessarily, for any Q, Q would also have a reason to do or to promote p if Q were in a causal position to do or to promote p. All other reasons are agent-relative. Notice that on this definition of agent-neutrality and its correspondent definition of agent-relativity, nearness in space cannot be an ultimate ground of an agent-relative reason. When we think of nearness affecting our moral obligations, it seems that it does so by affecting our causal efficacy in providing aid: we are standing on the bank of a river in which someone is drowning, someone has had a heart attack in the room where we are and we know CPR, etc. In all of these cases, if someone else had been in our spatial position, he or she would have been in our causal position and so would have had the same duty to aid as we do. And spatial position does not seem to have any other significance beyond its effect on causal position. After all, if someone had been further away but able to push a button to activate a machine that would save the one drowning, then she would have had the same duty to aid as we did. (See Orsi for a discussion of nearness and obligations.) 21 + 22 +Special obligations as a guide to good and bad creates moral danger, therefore they can’t hold moral value or else moral reasoning breaks down. 23 +SEP, 2014, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, All entries and substantive updates are refereed by the members of a distinguished Editorial Board before they are made public, Special Obligations, First published Thu Oct 17, 2002; substantive revision Sun Jan 5, 2014, http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/special-obligations/# 24 + Special relationships take many forms, and the parties to those relationships range across the entire spectrum of moral character (at least according to some views), from the extremely virtuous to the downright bad, with most of us falling somewhere in the middle of that range. This fact about the human beings who make promises, stand in familial relationships, and have friends, leads to the worry that special obligations, in certain circumstances, will license, and perhaps even require, very bad behavior. Dean Cocking and Jeanette Kennett, in their “Friendship and Moral Danger,” offer a case in which one friend, Carl, calls upon another, Dave, to help him to hide the body of someone whom he has killed (279–280). What ought Dave to do in such a circumstance? The worry is that if Dave has special obligations to his friend Carl, then it seems that Dave ought to help Carl to hide the body. But, in the absence of special obligations, it seems clear that Dave ought to alert the police to what Carl has done. Does the friendship between Dave and Carl provide them with a license or even a requirement to act immorally (or, in a way such that in the absence of the friendship, it would count as immoral) in order to protect one another? Similarly, do Nazis have special obligations to one another to help each other with their genocidal plans? Do parents have obligations to protect their children, no matter what terrible crimes their children have committed? Cocking and Kennett regard the claims or obligations of friendship as non-moral claims. They use the likelihood of ‘moral danger’ within friendship to undermine what they call “highly-moralized” accounts of friendship (280ff). Thus, for them, the demands created by special relationships are not moral demands. So, on their view, the non-moral special obligations of friendship may certainly conflict with moral obligations, just as, presumably, reasons of self-interest or prudence may conflict with moral demands. We then are left with the familiar problem of how we ought to balance moral and non-moral reasons against one another. - EntryDate
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