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    It is not the case that Kindness is a more varied virtue than justice, generosity, or wisdom.

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    • 1.Justice manifests across radically distinct domains—distributive, retributive, procedural, restorative—each with irreducibly different principles and applications.
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    • 2.Aristotle's treatment in the Nicomachean Ethics shows justice is itself a genus containing multiple species, not a single uniform virtue.
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    • 3.The apparent unity of justice is a surface feature; its internal plurality rivals or exceeds any catalogue of kindness's varieties.
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    • 1.Counting 'sorts' of a virtue conflates the virtue itself with its situational expressions, a distinction central to Aquinas's account of virtue and its acts.
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    • 2.If variability of application determines a virtue's rank in variety, then prudence—which Aquinas identifies as directing all other virtues across every domain of practical life—is more varied than kindness by the same criterion.
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    • 1.There is only one sort of justice, one sort of generosity, and one sort of wisdom.
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    • 2.There are a hundred sorts of kindness.
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