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It is not the case that A being can consistently will universal inaction on talent development while retaining the rational agency sufficient to form and act on maxims.
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Rational agency requires some minimal capacity development; utterly stagnant beings cannot form or revise maxims coherently over time.
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Willing universal non-development is self-defeating: it requires using rational capacities while denying their worth developing in principle.
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Talents constitute preconditions for forming maxims about non-trivial choices; their total neglect undermines rational agency's meaningful exercise.
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Rational agency requires only consistency in maxim-formation, not optimization of capacities or self-improvement.
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A being can rationally will inaction on talent if they consistently prioritize other values like contemplation or preservation of autonomy.
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Maxim-formation ability is logically independent from talent development; one can reject self-cultivation while maintaining principled agency.
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