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    It is not the case that Children acquire moral judgment through community membership rather than through explicit instruction, corrective feedback, or caretaker modeling.

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    • 1.Bandura's social learning theory demonstrates that children acquire moral judgments through systematic observation and imitation of caretaker behavior.
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    • 2.The absence of explicit verbal instruction does not preclude the presence of implicit behavioral modeling as a primary transmission mechanism.
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    • 3.Conflating 'explicit instruction' with 'all instructional mechanisms' commits a false dichotomy that obscures how observational learning functions.
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    • 1.Aristotle's account in the Nicomachean Ethics holds that moral virtue is acquired through habituation guided by correction from those who already possess practical wisdom.
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    • 2.Empirical developmental research by Turiel distinguishes moral domains from social conventions, showing children respond differentially to authority-based correction in ways that presuppose instructed norm hierarchies.
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    • 3.The poverty-of-the-stimulus argument for community-only acquisition proves too much, as analogous reasoning was used to postulate innate linguistic structure that later empirical work substantially revised.
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    • 1.A child raised in a particular moral community almost inevitably ends up judging in accordance with an idiolect of the local moral code.
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    • 2.This moral acquisition occurs despite lack of sufficient explicit instruction.
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    • 3.This moral acquisition occurs despite lack of sufficient negative feedback for moral mistakes.
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