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    It is not the case that Persistent, irresolvable moral disagreement across cultures reflects the absence of objective facts that would otherwise converge inquiry.

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    • 1.Moral disagreement persists despite sincere inquiry, but so did scientific disagreement for centuries; this proves nothing about objectivity.
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    • 2.Deep factual disagreements exist about non-moral matters (consciousness, quantum mechanics) without inferring those domains lack objectivity.
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    • 3.Persistent disagreement could reflect rational agents accessing genuine moral facts through different cultural lenses, not absence of facts.
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    • 1.Scientific inquiries converge toward consensus; persistent moral disagreement lacks this convergence pattern across cultures.
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    • 2.Objective facts constrain rational belief; if morality were objective, rational agents would increasingly align on core principles.
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    • 3.Explanatory parsimony favors moral anti-realism: disagreement is better explained by cultural variation than by epistemic difficulty.
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