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I have made a similar distinction for a similar purpose in Win-chiat Lee, “On Non-Members’ Duty to Obey Immigration Law: A Problem of Political Obligation,” in Ann E. Cudd and Win-chiat Lee (eds.), Citizenship and Immigration: Borders, Migration, and Political Membership in a Global Age (Switzerland: Springer, 2016).
For arguments that show how a universal duty can be transformed into a local duty confined to within the scope of a state, see Robert E. Goodin, “What is So Special about Our Fellow Countrymen?” Ethics 98:4 (July 1988): 663–86, and Jeremy Waldron, “Special Ties and Natural Duties,” Philosophy and Public Affairs 22:1 (Winter 1993): 3–30.
This seemingly paradoxical claim can be made sense of if we can make sense of “a right to do wrong.” For an argument showing “a right to do wrong” is coherent, see Jeremy Waldron, “A Right to Do Wrong,” Ethics 92:1 (Oct. 1981): 21–39.
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Lee, Wc. Review of Michael Blake, Justice, Migration, and Mercy (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2020). Criminal Law, Philosophy 18, 307–313 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11572-023-09709-0
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