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    It is not the case that Social inequality in access to proper ritual education entails that not all humans have equivalent practical pathways to virtue, undermining the universalist claim.

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    • 1.Virtue may be achievable through multiple non-ritual pathways (philosophy, mentorship, self-reflection), not exclusively through formal ritual education.
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    • 2.Unequal access to rituals affects opportunity but not capacity; humans retain agency to develop virtue despite structural disadvantages.
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    • 3.Universalist claims about virtue need not assume identical pathways—only that all humans possess the fundamental rational or moral capacities required.
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    • 1.Virtue requires practical habituation; without ritualized training, people cannot develop the embodied dispositions that constitute virtuous character.
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    • 2.Unequal access to ritual education creates structural barriers that make virtue achievement statistically less probable for disadvantaged groups.
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    • 3.Universalist ethics claiming all humans have equal pathways to virtue ignores material conditions that enable or prevent moral formation.
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