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Let’s not get hung up on the term “moral perfection” since really, that is ambiguous. What you see in the West is a situation where Christlike morality is the ultimate end goal where in the East what you see is union with God as the end goal. The implications there are totally different and it’s not even clear that the sort of catharsis required for theoria are necessarily via the same morals as those that became the be all end all in the West. In fact, they’re clearly not if you ask me. Consider that “perfect” can mean different things in these different churches.