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    It is not the case that If secondary principles were merely heuristics for utility, violating them when utility demands should produce no remainder-obligation, yet moral phenomenology consistently registers such remainders.

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    • 1.Moral phenomenology conflates psychological guilt-responses with genuine normative remainders; emotions persist without corresponding obligations.
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    • 2.Secondary principles may be internally complex heuristics encoding multiple values beyond utility, legitimately generating remainder-obligations independently.
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    • 3.The argument assumes secondary principles have single-purpose explanations; they may instead serve irreducible moral functions utility-calculus cannot capture.
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    • 1.Moral phenomenology—our direct experience of obligation—is reliable data about moral reality, not mere illusion or evolutionary byproduct.
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    • 2.Remainder-obligations (guilt after utility-justified violations) persist even when agents recognize the violation maximized good outcomes.
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    • 3.If secondary principles were purely instrumental heuristics, rational agents recognizing utility-justification should feel no residual obligation.
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