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Special Obligations
Do you have special moral obligations to your children? To your family or friends? To your government?
If two children, one of whom was your son or daughter, the other a complete stranger, were drowning and you could select only one to save, would you be justified in saving your son or daughter? What if doing so meant that two other children would die? How powerful is one's special obligation to one's children? Speaking as a non-parent, I couldn't truly answer this question, but what do the rest of you think? There certainly does seem to be some special obligation...
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