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    It is not the case that Russ Shafer-Landau's non-naturalist realism establishes that moral facts can be sui generis and necessary without requiring divine grounding, severing the link the moral argument needs.

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    • 1.Moral properties as sui generis entities lack causal powers and remain metaphysically mysterious—arguably more puzzling than divine grounding.
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    • 2.Non-naturalist realism doesn't explain *why* moral facts obligate us; invoking abstract necessity evades rather than answers this question.
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    • 3.The moral argument can be reformulated to challenge whether brute moral facts adequately ground objective obligation better than God does.
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    • 1.Moral properties can be non-physical yet metaphysically robust, like numbers or logical truths, requiring no supernatural explanation.
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    • 2.Necessity and sui generis status are compatible with naturalism; moral facts need not reduce to physical facts to be real.
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    • 3.The moral argument's force depends on showing only God explains morality, but non-naturalist realism provides an alternative explanation.
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