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The Metaphysical Grounds for Thinking That Certain Entities Have Value or Not
Different moral views can differ, not just in how they rank options, but also in what philosophers call their right makers. What's the metaphysical grounds for a thinking that certain entities have value or not? Anso its the thing that makes it true, things that make it though, exactly? So imagine someone starts off with a kind of partialist consequentialism. And then suppose that person revises their view such that they have everyone being equally weighted. It seems like there's two ways of revising that view. One is to think, oh, i had these special obligations with respect to my friends and family. Actually, that just doesn't make any sense. All that matters is improving welfare