See the axis · Partiality

Objection

The endless demand

If everyone counts equally, your whole life becomes a failing.

Objects to

  1. If a stranger's pain weighs as much as a loved one's, every euro spent on a pleasure I could do without is a euro owed to someone dying for want of care.
  2. Strict impartiality grants no respite: giving my child a gift rather than saving a distant child becomes, at every moment, a dereliction.
  3. A morality that no human being can keep, and that condemns even the love we bear our own, may have mistaken what morality is.

Therefore A demand that no one can live by, and that turns attachment into a fault, may refute itself.

Possible resolutions of the objection

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