Assertion: gratitude | /r/HasProperty | warranted
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Source sentences:
text: 1) R has benefited Y in a way Y did not deserve, and 2) that benefit was not the result of an accidental or regrettable feature of R. Insofar as conditions 1) and 2) are sufficient for gratitude to be warranted, and R’s being an agent is not necessary for 1) and 2), R’s being an agent is is not necessary for gratitude to be warranted.
text: 1) R has benefited Y in a way Y did not deserve, and 2) that benefit was not the result of an accidental or regrettable feature of R. Insofar as conditions 1) and 2) are sufficient for gratitude to be warranted, and R’s being an agent is not necessary for 1) and 2), R’s being an agent is is not necessary for gratitude to be warranted.
text: If this is true, then parents who intentionally bring children into existence cannot do so under the description “benefiting those children”, insofar as we cannot intend the impossible; and if intention to benefit is necessary for gratitude to be warranted, children’s gratitude to their parents for bringing them into existence is never warranted.