  The concern about being overwhelmed by a bottomless pit of needs-related responsibilities can be deflated similarly using various strategies. One is to point out that claims of need might have variable importance depending on key features such as the relationships among relevant parties, resources available, and the burdens that meeting them would place on others (e.g. Copp 1998, Brock 2009). And, of course, the issue of responsibilities that needs generate and how to distribute responsibilities for meeting needs is an enormous topic (e.g., Braybrooke 1987, Miller 1999, Miller 2007), one that will be discussed below (for instance, in sections 4 and 5). For now, it is worth pointing out that we need not assume what this objection does, namely that meeting needs is an all or nothing affair, so that either needs have normative force (in which case they have too much) or else they can have none at all.