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    If the mean of reason can expand indefinitely to require ... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The mean of reason, when properly assessed by a person of true virtue, can call for heroic virtue far beyond conventional measures of reasonableness.

    If the mean of reason can expand indefinitely to require heroic sacrifice, the concept loses its normative determinacy and collapses into supererogation without principled limits.

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    • 1.Normative concepts require determinate boundaries; without them, obligations become indistinguishable from ideals and lose practical authority.
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    • 2.If reason can justify any sacrifice as mandatory, it provides no guidance for actual moral decision-making in constrained circumstances.
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    • 3.Historical movements that dissolved limits on demanded sacrifice (revolutionary terror, totalitarianism) show the practical dangers of boundless expansion.
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    • 1.Supererogation and obligation need not be mutually exclusive; graduated scales of justifiable sacrifice can maintain normativity without sharp boundaries.
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    • 2.Context-sensitivity and flexible thresholds are features of mature moral reasoning, not signs of conceptual collapse or indeterminacy.
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    • 3.The collapse is false dichotomy: reason can expand permissibly-demandable sacrifice while still distinguishing it from what agents may merely pursue.
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