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    It is not the case that The claim assumes acquisitiveness exhausts human motivation, ignoring Hutcheson and Hume's evidence that sympathy and fellow-feeling are equally natural and constrain self-interest.

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    • 1.Sympathy itself may reduce to enlightened self-interest—helping others increases reputation and reciprocal aid, making it instrumentally acquisitive.
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    • 2.Acknowledging sympathy as natural does not prove it 'constrains' acquisitiveness rather than coexisting with it as competing, context-dependent motives.
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    • 1.Empirical psychology demonstrates humans exhibit genuine altruistic behavior even when self-interest provides no benefit, supporting sympathy's naturalness.
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    • 2.Hutcheson and Hume grounded moral sentiments in observable human responses, not speculation, making their evidence more reliable than purely acquisitive theories.
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    • 3.Economic models assuming only self-interest fail to predict actual human cooperation, suggesting acquisitiveness alone cannot explain motivation.
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