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    It is not the case that Virtues do not function as invariant reasons for action

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    • 1.Virtues like justice and honesty track objective features of situations that generate pro tanto reasons regardless of contextual outcome.
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    • 2.Aristotle's doctrine of the mean entails that virtuous action is relative to circumstances, but the virtue itself remains a stable disposition providing invariant normative direction.
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    • 3.The torturer example conflates the weight of a reason with its existence—considerateness generates a genuine reason that is simply outweighed, not cancelled.
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    • 1.Rosalind Hursthouse's account of virtue ethics holds that a virtue reliably motivates right action across relevantly similar cases, constituting a structural invariance in practical reasoning.
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    • 2.If virtues generated no invariant reasons, the distinction between virtue and mere habit would collapse, undermining the evaluative core of virtue ethics itself.
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    • 1.An action can be considerate without necessarily being better for that reason
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    • 2.Wiping a torturer's brow may be considerate, yet this consideration does not constitute a reason to perform the action
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    • 3.The torturer's other activities prevent what would ordinarily give a reason from doing so in that context
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