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    Challenges→The retributive intuition that wrongdoers deserve punishment is widely shared among people.

    A widely shared intuition rooted in evolutionary psychology or social conditioning carries no independent normative authority.

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    • 1.Evolutionary origins explain *why* we believe something, not *whether* it is true or good. Origin and justification are distinct.
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    • 2.Widespread intuitions often contradict each other across cultures, suggesting they reflect contingent conditioning rather than moral truth.
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    • 3.If intuitions had normative force merely by being shared, we couldn't rationally critique harmful social practices like historical slavery.
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    • 1.All moral reasoning ultimately depends on some foundational intuitions; rejecting all intuition-based authority leaves no ground for ethics.
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    • 2.Convergent intuitions across evolutionary pressures may track objective features of human flourishing, making them epistemically reliable.
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    • 3.The distinction between 'evolutionary origin' and 'normative truth' may be false; our moral faculties could be both shaped and truth-tracking.
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