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    It is not the case that Moral intuitions about punishment are shaped by retributive emotions like vengeance, which evolutionary debunking arguments show are unreliable guides to moral truth.

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    • 1.Evolutionary origins don't entail unreliability; vision evolved for survival but reliably detects objective features of reality.
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    • 2.Cultural variation in punishment norms could reflect application of shared moral principles to different contexts, not false intuitions.
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    • 3.Retributive emotions may track real moral properties (desert, fairness) that also happened to aid ancestral survival and cooperation.
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    • 1.Evolutionary debunking arguments show emotions favoring kin/tribe survival (vengeance) need not track moral facts.
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    • 2.Retributive intuitions vary dramatically across cultures, suggesting they reflect evolved psychology, not objective moral truths.
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    • 3.If punishment intuitions serve reproductive fitness rather than justice, they're unreliable guides to how societies should actually punish.
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