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    Supports→Even if an ideal moral code for perfectly moral humans could be conceptualized, it would be normatively inadequate

    A moral code adequate only for beings immune to bias, weakness of will, and cognitive limitation fails the action-guidance condition under non-ideal theory as articulated by Rawls and Farrelly.

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    Key Terms

    Action-guidance condition(in ethics)
    The requirement that a moral rule must actually be able to guide people's behavior in the real world.
    Cognitive limitation(as used in philosophy of mind)
    A boundary or constraint on how our brains can process, understand, or remember information.
    Farrelly(as referenced by name)
    Colin Farrelly is a contemporary philosopher who works on non-ideal theory and how philosophical principles should apply in the real, messy world.
    Moral code(as used in ethics)
    A set of rules or principles that tell us what is right and wrong, and how we should treat others.
    Non-ideal theory(distinguished by Rawls from ideal theory)

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    Rawls(as the philosopher whose ideas are being referenced)
    John Rawls, a 20th-century philosopher famous for developing theories about justice and fairness in society.
    bias(bias-variance decomposition)
    A measure of how far an estimator's expected prediction is from the true target value; large bias indicates systematic error.
    weakness of will(Aristotelian virtue ethics as applied by Crummell)
    A condition in which an agent requires effortful reason to act morally, indicating that the habits of virtue are not yet fully formed

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