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    Challenges→The advice of good people must be sought and heeded.

    Identifying 'good people' requires prior agreement on substantive moral standards, creating a circular justification for their authority.

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    • 1.Moral standards are human constructs requiring collective agreement, not discovered truths independent of our definitions.
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    • 2.Authority figures claiming moral expertise must already embody standards they ask others to accept, creating logical circularity.
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    • 3.Without prior standards, 'good person' becomes an empty label—any definition smuggles in contested values disguised as facts.
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    • 1.Some moral intuitions (reducing suffering, reciprocal fairness) appear convergent across cultures without requiring explicit prior agreement.
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    • 2.Circular reasoning requires *no* independent access to standards; but empirical observation of consequences can ground moral judgments.
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    • 3.A good person can be identified by behavioral patterns and outcomes regardless of whether observers first agree on an abstract moral theory.
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