Abstract
Abstract Chapter 7 focuses on whether, when, and how special connections—including personal relationships, projects, and commitments—enhance requiring reasons or permitting reasons to save others. It first looks at some of the different ways in which reasons can be enhanced by special connections, in accord with the kinds and degrees of these connections. It then shows how lifetime features can amplify otherwise insufficiently strong (permitting and requiring) reasons to save a lesser number of people to whom one is specially connected over a greater number of strangers, making it permissible or even required to save the lesser number. Finally, the chapter distinguishes between responsibly acquired special connections and non-responsibly acquired special connections and shows how the former (but not the latter) can increase the cost one is required to incur in helping others over the course of one’s life.
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