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    Supports→Moralistic restrictions targeting social-fabric dissolution are therefore reducible to harm prevention under a sufficiently robust conception of harm.

    Many moral prohibitions (against betrayal, deception, covenant-breaking) track predictable social-structural damages, making reducibility explanatorily superior to positing independent moral facts.

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    Covenant-breaking(as used in ethics)
    Breaking a serious promise or agreement, especially one that was meant to be binding and sacred.
    Explanatorily superior(as a comparison between theories)
    Better at explaining why something is the way it is; more successful at giving reasons for observed phenomena.
    Moral prohibitions(as used in ethics)
    Rules or commands that tell us what we shouldn't do, based on ideas about right and wrong.
    Positing independent moral facts(as used in meta-ethics)
    Suggesting that moral truths exist on their own, separate from anything else—like saying 'betrayal is wrong' is just a basic fact of reality.
    Social-structural damages(as used in social philosophy)

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    Harms that affect how society is organized and how people relate to each other—like broken trust making communities fall apart.
    meta-ethics(a branch of ethical theory)
    the nature and justification, if any, of moral judgments
    reducibility(Computability theory; used to compare the relative difficulty of decision problems.)
    Problem P1 is reducible to problem P2 if a solution of P2 immediately yields a solution of P1.

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