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    It is not the case that If ritual arises in response to already-diminished naturalness, then ritual is an effect of corrosion rather than its source, reversing the causal claim.

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    • 1.Rituals exist in all known societies including hunter-gatherers with minimal environmental disruption, suggesting independent origin.
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    • 2.Causality may be bidirectional: ritual both responds to and actively reinforces naturalness loss through feedback loops, not pure effect.
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    • 3.The claim conflates ritual's function (compensation) with its origin (which could be evolutionary/cognitive rather than corrosive).
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    • 1.Anthropological evidence shows rituals emerge in cultures after ecological disruption or social fragmentation, not before.
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    • 2.If ritual were causal in eroding naturalness, pre-ritual societies would show less natural behavior—but they historically show more.
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    • 3.Rituals explicitly compensate for lost spontaneity (e.g., formal greetings replace natural social bonding), indicating downstream origin.
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