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  1. David Heyd, Supererogation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982), p. 149.

  2. Ibid, p. 2.

  3. Edna Ulmann-Margalit, “Considerateness,” Iyyun 60, 2011, p. 205.

  4. Ibid, p. 206.

  5. A. T. Nuyen, “Decency,” The Journal of Value Inquiry 36, 2002, p. 502.

  6. Mathias Risse, “The Morally Decent Person,” Southern Journal of Philosophy 38 (2), 2000, p. 270.

  7. Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, G & C Merriam Co., 1971.

  8. Ulmann-Margalit, “Considerateness,” p. 215.

  9. Ibid, p. 206.

  10. Heyd, Supererogation, p. 149.

  11. Laurence Thomas, “Liberty and a Spirit of Moral Decency,” International Journal of Applied Ethics 23 (2), 2011, pp. 246–247.

  12. Peter Singer, “Famine, Affluence, and Morality,” Philosophy & Public Affairs 1 (3), 1972, pp. 231–232.

  13. Peter Unger, Living High and Letting Die – Our Illusion of Innocence (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996), p. 27.

  14. F. M. Kamm, “Does Distance Matter Morally to the Duty to Rescue?,” Law and Philosophy 19 (6), 2000, p. 672.

  15. Michael Slote, The Ethics of Care and Empathy (New York: Routledge, 2007), pp. 22–25.

  16. Singer, “Famine, Affluence, and Morality,” p. 231.

  17. Immanuel Kant, Groundwork to the Metaphysics of Morals, trans. and ed. Mary J. Gregor (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 1997, p. 31.

  18. John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism (London: Parker, Son and Bourn, West Strand, 1863), pp. 72–73.

  19. Daniel Statman, “Who Needs Imperfect Duties?,” American Philosophical Quarterly 33 (2), 1996, p. 212.

  20. John Kekes, Moral Tradition and Individuality (Princeton: Princeton University Press), 1991, p. 79.

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Benziman, Y. The Ethics of Common Decency. J Value Inquiry 48, 87–94 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10790-013-9408-7

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