The Ledger of the Unencountered: The View from Nowhere and the Causal Inversion of Duty
"Do you have the same moral obligations to a stranger halfway around the world as to someone right in front of you?" This classic philosophical dilemma presents itself as a neutral comparison between two pre-given quantities on an objective scale. It is not.
Before distant suffering can be weighed against an embodied face-to-face encounter, it must first be carried into view by an active speaker. That carrying is not an innocent report of an independent magnitude; it is an exertion of framing power that attempts to place the unencountered onto the same ledger as the encountered, and then…
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