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We still don't know whether it's possible to justify treating a promise as binding even after the circumstances that motivated it have completely changed.

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Promises are generally treated as morally binding regardless of changing circumstances, but this can sometimes conflict with what seems like the genuinely better or more compassionate choice. This unresolved tension appears throughout personal and contractual ethics.

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Citation ID: WS01140 Title: We still don't know whether it's possible to justify treating a promise as binding even after the circumstances that motivated it have completely changed. URL: https://worldsolve.org/index.php?api=problem&id=1140