 Some have resisted this move by pointing out that while people in organic associations do often feel obligations to other members, we normally seek an independent ground to justify them (see Simmons 1996; Wellman 1997). After all, it’s hardly surprising that members who have been socialized within a certain practice will feel that their identity is shaped in important ways by the responsibilities associated with it. The worry is that, absent a justification for this treatment, these feelings are merely an instance of false consciousness. It’s worth noticing, however, that whilst this might be an objection for communitarian versions of the theory (Horton 2010), it is not an objection against Dworkin’s formulation of the associative view. Dworkin does believe that we have