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    It is not the case that Evolutionary pressures select for fitness-enhancing beliefs, not truth-tracking ones, making moral belief accuracy compatible with purely naturalistic processes.

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    • 1.Systematic false beliefs about cooperation and reciprocity would eventually create coordination failures and reduce fitness, selecting for accuracy.
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    • 2.If moral beliefs are purely fitness-driven byproducts, we lack justification for moral claims, undermining the distinction between belief and mere impulse.
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    • 3.Evolution explains belief formation, not belief justification; naturalistic origins don't determine whether moral beliefs track real normative facts.
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    • 1.Fitness-enhancing beliefs (cooperation, reciprocity norms) often diverge from metaphysical truth but prove evolutionarily advantageous.
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    • 2.Natural selection optimizes for reproductive success, not correspondence with reality, so moral beliefs need not track actual moral facts.
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    • 3.Convergent moral intuitions across cultures reflect adaptive pressures, not universal moral truths accessible to reason.
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