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    Aristotle and the virtue ethics tradition hold that chara... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Even the most vicious persons deserve basic respect as persons with humanity.

    Aristotle and the virtue ethics tradition hold that character is constituted through habituated choices, making moral status genuinely responsive to one's volitional history.

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    • 1.Repeated actions create neural pathways that shape our automatic responses, making habituation a genuine mechanism of moral character formation.
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    • 2.We hold people morally accountable for actions they've cultivated through practice, suggesting character reflects meaningful volitional history.
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    • 3.Self-improvement narratives presuppose that character changes through deliberate choice over time, confirming habituation's role in moral development.
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    • 1.Upbringing and genetics significantly determine behavioral patterns before autonomous choice emerges, undermining the volitional-history basis of character.
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    • 2.A person's moral status (e.g., dignity, rights) shouldn't depend on past choices; we extend moral consideration to those with traumatic or constrained histories.
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    • 3.Moral transformation can occur suddenly through epiphany or external intervention, not just gradual habituation, challenging necessity of volitional history.
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