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The Guidance Objection

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The guidance objection: "do what the virtuous person would do" sends the hard case back where it started — the agent still must ask which act that is.

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A councilwoman weighing a shelter siting asks virtue ethics for the vote. "Vote wisely and justly" names the goal and withholds the ballot.