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    It is not the case that If the capacity for misuse disqualifies health and wealth from being genuine goods, the same logical structure would disqualify virtues, generating a reductio the Stoics cannot easily absorb.

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    • 1.Virtues are constitutively good (misuse shows they're absent), while wealth is instrumentally good (misuse shows external corruption).
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    • 2.A virtue exercised wrongly ceases being that virtue—courage becomes recklessness; wealth misused remains wealth, just wrongly applied.
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    • 3.The logical structures differ: virtues fail to materialize under misuse, while external goods remain goods subject to bad choices.
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    • 1.Virtues like courage can be misused (recklessness) just as wealth can be misused (greed), creating parallel logical structures.
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    • 2.If misuse-capacity disqualifies goods, then virtues face the same disqualification problem, forcing Stoics to revise their framework.
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    • 3.The reductio is powerful because Stoics cannot simply exempt virtues without providing a principled distinction from health/wealth.
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