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Insofar as acts of gratitude must be done from natural inclination, the argument goes, such acts cannot be done by exerting an effort of will, and thus cannot be morally obligatory (Card 1988; Wellman 1999b).
This argument may be vulnerable to the objection that the initial premise (that acts of gratitude must be done from natural inclination to count as such) is false (see section 3.4.2).
A final argument against the possibility of obligations of gratitude runs as follows: whether grateful acts must be done from natural inclination, beneficiaries must act from certain reasons in order for their actions to count as acts of gratitude (see section 3.4.2).
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The first begins with the premise that acts of gratitude must be done spontaneously, or from natural inclination, in order to count as acts of gratitude.
By contrast, the possibility of a moral obligation to laugh at a joke seems absurd, in part, because laughter is something that can only be done spontaneously, or from natural inclination (Card 1988).
That can be done by switching from coal to natural gas, environmentalists say.
What RightNow and HCL are doing represents the natural evolution of software from an automation tool to a cost-cutting and management tool.
She's doing something not natural".
But a new survey shows that the damage is being done because the damselfish was forced from its natural habitat and in fact the fish is also suffering.
A survey of the necrocolous beetle assemblage was done in the Bosque Los Colomos, a Protected Natural Area from Guadalajara County, Jalisco, Mexico.
This is done while running, so don't stray too far from your natural step.
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