If the virtuous person serves as the standard for fitting emotional response, then amusement at a sexist joke fails the fittingness criterion on the same grounds it fails the moral one.

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Standard: A standard is an established level of quality, safety, or performance that people agree to follow. It serves as a benchmark or reference point—like how a "standard" cup of coffee means roughly 8 ounces, or how building codes set standards for how strong a bridge must be. Standards help ensure consistency, fairness, and safety across different places and products.
Virtue ethics(in philosophy): An approach to ethics focused on developing good character traits (virtues like courage or honesty) rather than following rules or calculating outcomes.
Virtuous person(as a type of moral character in ethics): Someone who has developed good character habits so deeply that doing the right thing feels natural and easy, without inner struggle.
fitting(as used in aesthetics and ethics): Appropriate or reasonable given the circumstances; in this context, it means your emotional response matches what the thing actually deserves.

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