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    Supports→Moral beliefs have two directions of fit — they must fit moral reality and moral reality must fit our non-moral behavior — without contradiction, because the two directions relate moral beliefs to different parts of reality.

    Moral beliefs are designed to fit moral reality (how we ought to be), not merely non-moral reality (how we are behaviorally).

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    The matter does not rest here, however. The critic of premise (3) can point out that moral beliefs are unlike grocery inventories, since the part of the world that they are designed to fit is the part that tells us how we ought to be morally, rather than the part that tells how we are non-morally. Therefore, the moral reality that a moral judgment is designed to fit is distinct from the non-moral part of the world (our behavior) that may need to change in order to fit the moral judgment. Both di

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