Patient-relativity in morality

It is common to distinguish moral rules, reasons, or values that are agent-relative fromthose that are agent-neutral.Onecanalso distinguish moral rules, reasons, or values that are moment-relative from those that are moment-neutral. In this article, I introduce a third distinction that stands alongside these two distinctions- the distinction between moral rules, reasons, or values that are patient-relative and those that are patient-neutral. I then show how patient-relativity plays an important role in several moral theories, gives us a better understanding of agentrelativity and moment-relativity, and provides a novel objection to Derek Parfit’s "appeal to full relativity" argument.