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    It is not the case that High moral theory abstracts away precisely the contextual features — patient history, relational obligations, institutional setting — that determine the right bioethical response.

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    • 1.Context-sensitivity and principled reasoning are not opposed: principles can mandate attending to relational history and institutional constraints as morally relevant factors.
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    • 2.If abstract theory truly couldn't guide contextual decisions, bioethicists couldn't explain why informed consent or beneficence matter across radically different settings.
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    • 3.Without some abstract moral framework, appeals to relational obligation or institutional setting have no normative force—context alone cannot generate duties.
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    • 1.Moral theories like utilitarianism or deontology apply uniform rules regardless of whether a patient previously consented to similar treatments.
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    • 2.Institutional pressures and relational dynamics (power imbalances, trust history) causally determine what responses are actually ethical, not just permissible.
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    • 3.Two identical clinical scenarios yield different right answers if one involves a fractured family relationship and the other doesn't—theory alone cannot capture this.
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