We can't have moral obligations to every single person in this world. We have moral obligations to those who we come up — Alexander McCall Smith, The Sunday Philosophy Club
We can't have moral obligations to every single person in this world. We have moral obligations to those who we come up — Alexander McCall Smith, The Sunday Philosophy Club
We can't have moral obligations to every single person in this world. We have moral obligations to those who we come up — Alexander McCall Smith, The Sunday Philosophy Club
We can't have moral obligations to every single person in this world. We have moral obligations to those who we come up — Alexander McCall Smith, The Sunday Philosophy Club
We can't have moral obligations to every single person in this world. We have moral obligations to those who we come up — Alexander McCall Smith, The Sunday Philosophy Club
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We can't have moral obligations to every single person in this world. We have moral obligations to those who we come up against, who enter into our moral space, so to speak. That means neighbors, people we deal with, and so on.

— Alexander McCall Smith, The Sunday Philosophy Club
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