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We strive for impartiality because it promotes our own well-being and self-respect -- and because it earns us the respect and appreciation of others.

    { 1 } - self-interested-desire justification
    { 2 } - prima-facie-duty justification
    { 3 } - intuitionism justification
    { 4 } - cultural-relativism justification
    { 5 } - emotivism justification

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We strive for impartiality because it promotes our own well-being and self-respect -- and because it earns us the respect and appreciation of others.

We strive for impartiality because it promotes our own well-being and self-respect -- and because it earns us the respect and appreciation of others. <=> self-interested-desire justification

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2 is wrong. Please try again.

We strive for impartiality because it promotes our own well-being and self-respect -- and because it earns us the respect and appreciation of others.

    { 1 } - self-interested-desire justification
    { 2 } - prima-facie-duty justification
    { 3 } - intuitionism justification
    { 4 } - cultural-relativism justification
    { 5 } - emotivism justification

Violating impartiality is inherently bad and thus ought other-things-equal to be avoided. <=> prima-facie-duty justification

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3 is wrong. Please try again.

We strive for impartiality because it promotes our own well-being and self-respect -- and because it earns us the respect and appreciation of others.

    { 1 } - self-interested-desire justification
    { 2 } - prima-facie-duty justification
    { 3 } - intuitionism justification
    { 4 } - cultural-relativism justification
    { 5 } - emotivism justification

We know through our actual or ideal moral intuitions that universalizability is true and that we ought to be impartial. <=> intuitionism justification

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We strive for impartiality because it promotes our own well-being and self-respect -- and because it earns us the respect and appreciation of others.

    { 1 } - self-interested-desire justification
    { 2 } - prima-facie-duty justification
    { 3 } - intuitionism justification
    { 4 } - cultural-relativism justification
    { 5 } - emotivism justification

We ought to be impartial because society demands this (perhaps for the sake of its own survival). <=> cultural-relativism justification

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5 is wrong. Please try again.

We strive for impartiality because it promotes our own well-being and self-respect -- and because it earns us the respect and appreciation of others.

    { 1 } - self-interested-desire justification
    { 2 } - prima-facie-duty justification
    { 3 } - intuitionism justification
    { 4 } - cultural-relativism justification
    { 5 } - emotivism justification

Our judgments in favor of impartiality express our (actual or ideal) feelings in favor of it. <=> emotivism justification

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