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    If virtue is acquired through practice and choice, then r... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→A moral agent's distinctive perspective and inclinations toward action are shaped by biological factors rather than by reason alone.

    If virtue is acquired through practice and choice, then reason and agency are the primary shapers of moral perspective, not biology.

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    • 1.Virtues like courage and temperance visibly improve through deliberate training and repetition, regardless of innate traits.
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    • 2.Humans demonstrate moral flexibility across cultures, suggesting choice shapes ethics more than fixed biological nature.
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    • 3.We hold people morally accountable for actions, implying they possess genuine agency to have chosen otherwise.
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    • 1.Biological factors like temperament, trauma responses, and neurochemistry substantially constrain what choices feel possible to agents.
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    • 2.Practice itself selects for those already predisposed; biology determines who practices virtue in the first place.
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    • 3.Reason and choice operate within evolved emotional systems that predate and shape which options reasoning considers moral.
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