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    It is not the case that Appealing to divine will replaces the epistemological question—how do we know genocide is wrong?—with an equally contested theological question about God's existence and knowable commands.

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    • 1.We can know genocide is wrong through reason and empathy about suffering—capacities independent of theological claims about contested deities.
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    • 2.Divine will is less epistemically accessible than observable harm; we have direct access to genocide's effects but not God's commands.
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    • 3.Many theists and atheists agree genocide is wrong; their moral consensus doesn't require resolving disagreement about God's existence first.
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    • 1.Moral realism requires grounding moral facts somewhere; divine will is no harder to justify than brute moral facts or evolutionary accounts.
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    • 2.Secular frameworks (utilitarianism, deontology) are equally contested; shifting debates doesn't solve the underlying disagreement.
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    • 3.Divine command theory at least offers a unified source for obligation; secular alternatives fragment across incompatible metaethical theories.
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