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    It is not the case that Some degree of motivation is a minimally necessary condition for a genuine moral judgment.

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    • 1.Moral judgments can be genuine cognitive beliefs about objective moral facts that are entirely motivationally inert without ceasing to be moral judgments.
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    • 2.On Humean motivational psychology, beliefs alone never motivate; only desires do, so a moral belief need not carry motivational force to be genuine.
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    • 3.Amoralists, as described by Shafer-Landau and Railton, can sincerely assent to moral propositions while lacking corresponding motivation, demonstrating that judgment and motivation are conceptually separable.
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    • 1.The supporting argument conflates sincerity of assertion with motivational engagement, but one can sincerely report a moral fact the way one sincerely reports a mathematical fact, without being moved by it.
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    • 2.Depression and akrasia produce well-documented cases where agents make genuine moral judgments yet experience no corresponding motivational pull, suggesting motivation is contingent rather than constitutive of moral judgment.
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    • 1.If one claims that something is morally wrong but feels no disinclination to do it or to persuade others not to do it, then one is either being insincere or not making a genuine moral claim.
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    • 2.A moral judgment that is sincere must therefore be accompanied by at least some motivation to act.
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