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    It is not the case that The properties of authority-independence, universality, and justification by harm, justice, or rights do not reliably cluster together in a way that distinguishes moral norms from other norms

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    • 1.A reliable cluster of properties is required to set moral norms apart from other norms
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    • 2.Empirical evidence suggests authority-independence, universality, seriousness, and justification by harm, justice, or rights do not co-occur with sufficient regularity
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    • 1.Wittgenstein's family resemblance argument entails that concepts need not share a single set of co-occurring properties to constitute a unified category.
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    • 2.If moral norms form a family-resemblance concept, the absence of reliable clustering is a descriptive fact about the concept's structure, not a defect requiring correction.
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    • 3.Mackie's moral error theory independently predicts property-cluster failure: if moral properties are metaphysically queer projections, no natural co-occurrence pattern should be expected.
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    • 1.Turiel's domain theory, which posits the moral/conventional distinction as universal, has been challenged by Haidt's cross-cultural data showing the distinction collapses in many non-WEIRD populations.
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    • 2.When harm-based justification, authority-independence, and universality diverge systematically across cultures, no privileged combination can serve as the definitional core of morality.
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