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    Challenges→The retributive intuition that wrongdoers deserve punishment is widely shared among people.

    Moral intuitions vary systematically across cultures, historical periods, and social positions, undermining claims of universality.

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    • 1.Anthropological evidence documents radical disagreement: cultures have differed on slavery, infanticide, and gender equality without convergence.
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    • 2.Social position correlates with moral judgment: the enslaved and enslavers held opposite views on slavery's morality, suggesting interest-based rather than universal intuitions.
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    • 3.Historical moral reversals (e.g., animal cruelty once accepted, now condemned) suggest intuitions track cultural change, not discovery of unchanging moral truth.
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    • 1.Variation in *application* (when/how to show compassion) differs from variation in *principles* (that suffering matters), which show surprising cross-cultural consistency.
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    • 2.Systematic disagreement may reflect different factual beliefs (about women's nature, afterlife) rather than different fundamental moral values about harm and fairness.
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    • 3.Self-interest and power differences explain variation more parsimoniously than moral subjectivity: those benefiting from practices defend them regardless of true universality.
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