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    It is not the case that High moral theory is useful and attractive in bioethics because it provides structured guidance when routine moral coping skills fail.

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    • 1.High moral theories systematically disagree with each other, so invoking them in hard cases multiplies conflict rather than resolving it.
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    • 2.When routine moral coping fails, competing theoretical frameworks (utilitarian vs. Kantian) typically yield opposing verdicts on the same bioethical dilemma.
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    • 3.Structured guidance that produces contradictory directives offers no action-guiding advantage over the unstructured intuitions it was meant to replace.
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    • 1.Moral expertise in bioethics is constituted by particularist skill in reading context, not by application of abstract principles — as Aristotle argues in the Nicomachean Ethics regarding phronesis.
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    • 2.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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    • 3.Therefore, recourse to high theory when coping skills fail replaces one inadequacy with a more systematic form of moral blindness to the particular case.
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    • 1.Routine moral coping skills work often enough in everyday life and bioethics, but sometimes fail.
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    • 2.When routine moral coping skills fail, more structured and systematic moral guidance is needed.
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    • 3.High moral theories such as consequentialism and deontology offer structured and systematic moral guidance.
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