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    It is not the case that A theory achieving consistency by overriding context-sensitive judgment produces moral errors rather than moral insight.

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    • 1.Context-sensitive judgment is prone to rationalization, bias, and inconsistency; theoretical constraints provide necessary moral discipline.
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    • 2.Some moral principles (like universal human rights) require overriding particularistic context to avoid enabling serious injustices.
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    • 3.The claim conflates moral errors with counterintuitive conclusions; consistency sometimes reveals that intuitions, not theory, were mistaken.
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    • 1.Moral situations differ in morally relevant ways that abstract rules cannot fully capture without loss of important nuance.
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    • 2.When theories sacrifice contextual judgment for consistency, they often prescribe actions that violate our considered moral convictions.
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    • 3.Moral expertise develops through habituation in recognizing context-specific features, not through rigid rule-following.
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