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    It is not the case that A child who recoils from witnessing cruelty and judges it wrong may be directly apprehending a moral fact, with the teaching merely directing attention rather than conferring justification.

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    • 1.Children's moral recoils correlate strongly with culturally-specific upbringing; identical situations elicit opposite responses across societies.
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    • 2.We lack epistemic access to 'moral facts' comparable to sensory perception, and no consensus exists on what moral properties even are.
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    • 3.Evolutionary explanations adequately account for child's aversion to cruelty without positing objective moral facts.
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    • 1.Moral intuitions about suffering appear cross-culturally and develop before explicit teaching, suggesting direct perception rather than social construction.
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    • 2.If all moral knowledge required teaching, we'd need an infinite regress of prior teachers to justify the first moral claim.
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    • 3.Perceptual experiences (visual, auditory) reliably track objective features; moral responses could similarly track objective moral properties.
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