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

    Cross-cultural psychology (Shweder et al.) shows the moral-conventional distinction is not universally replicated across all cultures.

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    • 1.Shweder's research on Oriya culture shows participants don't distinguish moral violations from convention violations the way Western subjects do.
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    • 2.Cultural relativism about morality suggests what counts as moral vs conventional varies by social context and values, not universal cognition.
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    • 3.If the distinction were truly universal, we'd expect consistent categorization across cultures; observed variation suggests it's culturally constructed.
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    • 1.Even if people articulate moral-conventional distinctions differently, the underlying cognitive structure may still be universal but expressed culturally.
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    • 2.Shweder's methodology relied on specific questions and contexts; different elicitation methods might reveal the distinction in supposedly non-replicating cultures.
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    • 3.Domain-specificity theory suggests some universal foundations exist (harm, fairness) while cultural variation layers on top; partial replication isn't disproof.
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