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A precondition of the ethical intimacy that Confucius displays in his personal style is the rejection of any morality that privileges the dramatic and unusual, or the moral *problem*, as the locus of our moral efforts and energies...While these moments are those that most catch our attention precisely because they are so perplexing and put much at stake, they are also in some way too easy...The obviousness of such moments requires no acuity of attention. The beast springs; we are obliged to respond.... In Confucius' idiom, what is perhaps most troubling about this manner of framing morality is where it leaves the rest of experience. As Kupperman observes, if we identify morality as principally concerned with the resolution of difficult moral problems, then when our circumstances pose no such problems, we occupy an "ethical free-play zone, in which one can do whatever one likes." Moral activity here occurs in isolation from the rest of experience, with life divided into those moments that are endowed with moral significance and those that are morally neutral or empty.... His objection to this consists in the recognition that promoting such a sensitivity [to the effects of dramatic moral challenges] often functions to conceal the more subtle, though no less real or significant, alterations of character produced by our manner of conducting prosaic activities. Indeed, where we parcel experience into portions, we must recognize that the far larger share of our lives consists in the mundane and prosaic, and that the cumulative effect of our conduct in these activities profoundly shapes the sort of people we become. In Henry James' idiom where we await the dramatic defining moment, the beast in the jungle, to mark us out, we court the horror that arrives when we belatedly recognize that "the wait is itself [our] portion." And while we wait for the beast to spring, what is right before us is filched away because we are insensible to what it offers. We anticipate a crashing through the trees, ignoring the whispers of sound all around us. Thus, what initially appears as a sensitivity to the profound and transformative power of moral experience here reads as a disabling moral paralysis.