The endless demand
If everyone counts equally, your whole life becomes a failing.
Objects to
- 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.
- Strict impartiality grants no respite: giving my child a gift rather than saving a distant child becomes, at every moment, a dereliction.
- 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
Challenges