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    Challenges→A global equality requirement is deeply counterintuitive

    Intuitions shaped by historically contingent nationalist frameworks do not reliably track moral truth about global obligations.

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    • 1.Nationalist frameworks emerged recently (past 300 years) and vary drastically across cultures, suggesting contingency rather than discovery of truth.
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    • 2.People systematically privilege co-nationals in moral reasoning (favoring their welfare, rights) in ways that track group membership, not moral relevance.
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    • 3.If intuitions reliably tracked moral truth, we'd expect convergence across frameworks; instead nationalist ethics contradict fundamentally across societies.
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    • 1.All moral frameworks are historically contingent; contingency alone doesn't establish unreliability—empirical science is contingent yet tracks reality.
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    • 2.Nationalist intuitions may reflect genuine moral insight: special obligations from mutual participation in shared institutions do track morally relevant differences.
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    • 3.The claim conflates psychological bias in application with falsity of underlying principles; partiality toward family is both psychologically natural and morally defensible.
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