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    A virtuous judge who perceives the salient features of a ... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Justice is always to come in the future and is never present

    A virtuous judge who perceives the salient features of a situation and responds with equitable judgment instantiates justice as a present achievement, not a perpetual absence.

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    • 1.Practical wisdom enables judges to discern context-specific moral features that rigid rules cannot capture, making equitable judgment possible.
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    • 2.Justice as an achievable present state better motivates virtue than framing it as perpetually unattainable, which could induce moral despair.
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    • 3.Historical examples show virtuous judges producing widely-affirmed fair outcomes, demonstrating justice can be instantiated, not merely approximated.
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    • 1.No single judgment can be truly equitable without accounting for systemic injustices that preceded and constrain it—justice requires structural reform.
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    • 2.The claim conflates a judge's subjective perception of salience with objective justice, risking rationalization of biased judgments as equitable ones.
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    • 3.Justice involves incommensurable values (mercy vs. retribution); no single judgment fully satisfies all legitimate moral demands simultaneously.
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