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    Children's intuitive distinction between conventional and moral demands captures at least part of what it means for a moral demand to be objective.

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    • 1.Even young children after a certain age intuitively distinguish conventional demands from moral demands.
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    • 2.Basic moral demands are taken by children to be independent of authority and to apply universally to all persons.
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    • 3.Independence from authority and universality are features associated with objectivity.
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    • 1.Children's moral-conventional distinction may reflect culturally transmitted norms rather than perception of mind-independent moral facts.
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    • 2.Cross-cultural psychology (Shweder et al.) shows the moral-conventional distinction is not universally replicated across all cultures.
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    • 3.If the distinction is culturally variable, it tracks social construction rather than objective moral reality.
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    • 1.Perceiving a demand as authority-independent and universal is a phenomenological fact about the perceiver, not evidence of the demand's ontological status.
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    • 2.Mackie's 'argument from queerness' holds that even if we intuit moral demands as objective, no such queer entities need exist to explain those intuitions.
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    • 3.The subjective experience of objectivity is fully explicable by evolutionary or social accounts without positing genuine moral objectivity.
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    There are two ways to go if one wishes to defend the possibility of moral knowledge against the argument from moral objectivism. One is to reject the concept of stance-independent objectivity as a necessary condition on moral truth. Studies show that even young children after a certain age make an intuitive distinction between conventional demands and moral demands (Nichols 2004). Basic moral demands unlike conventional ones are taken to be independent of authority (for example, that of a teache
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