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    It is not the case that Most people think 50–50 splits are fair and worth maintaining through moral and institutional reward and sanction because humans are products of a dynamic game that promoted this tendency.

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    • 1.Rawls argues principles of justice are grounded in rational choice behind a veil of ignorance, not in contingent evolutionary pressures.
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    • 2.An evolutionary origin story commits a naturalistic fallacy: that humans evolved toward 50-50 splits does not entail such splits are morally fair or worth sanctioning.
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    • 3.G.E. Moore's open question argument holds that any natural property, including evolutionary fitness, remains distinct from genuine moral goodness.
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    • 1.Cross-cultural empirical data (Henrich et al., 2001) shows ultimatum game splits vary dramatically across societies, undermining universal 50-50 norms.
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    • 2.If the tendency toward equal splits were evolutionarily fixed, we would not observe the cultural variance documented in behavioral economics fieldwork.
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    • 1.There is evolutionary pressure for moral approval of justice and just institutions to arise.
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    • 2.Human moral intuitions are shaped by the dynamic games that produced them.
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