 Commonsense morality agrees with most deontological theories that personal relationships involve various forms of morally admirable partiality. Until now most philosophers who have examined this phenomenon have focused on practical obligations: the ways in which we are obligated to treat our friends and relatives better than we treat people whom we do not know and to whom we are not significantly related. Disagreements regarding the extent and nature of such practical obligations have dominated the partialist-impartialist debate.