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    Supports→We have little reason to accept the claim that our moral beliefs are pervasively saturated with evolutionary influence.

    Accepting pervasive evolutionary saturation of moral beliefs requires dismissing the possibility of autonomous moral reflection.

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    The debunking argument would be strengthened if we had good reason to be skeptical about autonomous moral reflection. In this vein, Street claims that whatever moral reflection and reasoning we engage in is limited merely to assessing “thoroughly contaminated” evaluative beliefs using “tools of rational reflection [that are] equally contaminated” (Street 2006: 124). The problem, however, is that this claim is based upon the very premise in question: the tools of reflection are allegedly thorough

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