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    It is not the case that A preference for cooperation that cannot survive minimal defection signals from elites was never a robust cooperative preference in the game-theoretic sense.

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    • 1.Rational responsiveness to elite defection signals is adaptive, not a sign of weak preferences; robust players update beliefs with new information.
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    • 2.Game-theoretic robustness concerns fixed strategy stability, not preference persistence under norm-erosion; these are distinct analytical categories.
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    • 3.Preferences can be genuine yet context-dependent; collapsing under extreme conditions doesn't negate real cooperative motivation under normal conditions.
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    • 1.Robust preferences in game theory require stability under strategic variation; preferences collapsing at minimal defection signals fail this criterion.
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    • 2.Elite defection signals exploit information asymmetries; populations responding to them reveal conditional rather than intrinsic cooperative commitments.
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    • 3.Empirically, cooperation sustained only by norm-enforcement collapses when enforcement capacity weakens, indicating preference fragility not robustness.
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