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    Prioritizing FEO on grounds of moral development therefor... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→FEO should be given high priority because it protects the opportunity to fulfill one's basic moral interest in developing and exercising a sense of justice.

    Prioritizing FEO on grounds of moral development therefore overclaims its actual causal role in cultivating justice-oriented capacities.

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    • 1.FEO's actual mechanisms (resource allocation, access) don't directly teach virtues like compassion or solidarity that justice requires.
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    • 2.Empirical evidence shows structural equality alone doesn't guarantee moral development without complementary ethical education.
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    • 3.Attributing moral growth to FEO conflates removing barriers with cultivating character, which are distinct causal processes.
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    • 1.Material deprivation actively impairs moral development; FEO removes this impediment, making it indirectly but genuinely causal.
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    • 2.Justice-oriented capacities require lived experience of fairness; FEO creates conditions where such experience is possible at scale.
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    • 3.The claim conflates 'sole cause' with 'significant cause'—FEO needn't be primary to be substantially consequential for moral growth.
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