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    It is not the case that Mencius grounds ethics in the cultivation of moral sprouts (duan), where the developed sage perceives the contextually correct action without experiencing genuine duty-conflict.

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    • 1.Genuine moral dilemmas (killing one to save many) involve truly incommensurable values; cultivation cannot eliminate legitimate rational tension.
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    • 2.Claiming sages never experience duty-conflict risks dogmatism: it makes their judgments unfalsifiable and excludes self-correction through doubt.
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    • 3.Even cultivated agents face novel situations where competing principles genuinely apply; skill doesn't guarantee conflict-free decisions.
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    • 1.Moral development through habituation produces intuitive ethical perception, enabling sages to act rightly without deliberative conflict.
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    • 2.Duty-conflict assumes competing obligations are equally valid; cultivated moral sensibility dissolves this by clarifying genuine priorities.
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    • 3.Empirically, experts in any domain (medicine, music, ethics) develop fluent judgment without conscious rule-application or internal conflict.
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