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    It is not the case that Sharon Street's own evolutionary debunking argument concedes that valuing well-being and fairness is fitness-enhancing, which tracks what most moral realists count as moral truth.

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    • 1.Fitness-enhancement explains moral intuitions' origin; it doesn't justify their truth-tracking status without additional argument against debunking.
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    • 2.That convergence occurs between evolution and some moral values doesn't show realism is true—convergence can result from shared evolutionary pressures, not objective facts.
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    • 3.Street's framework shows evolution selects for adaptive beliefs, not true ones; conceding some values are fitness-enhancing actually strengthens, not weakens, the debunking argument.
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    • 1.If evolved moral intuitions about well-being and fairness reliably track objective moral truths, evolutionary debunking arguments lose their force.
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    • 2.Convergence between fitness-enhancement and moral realist values suggests these values capture genuine moral facts, not mere evolutionary accidents.
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    • 3.Street's own argument requires that some moral principles (valuing well-being) are fitness-enhancing, implicitly conceding moral realism can be evolutionarily grounded.
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