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    It is not the case that W.D. Ross's intuitionist framework establishes that people possess irreducible prima facie duties—like promise-keeping and justice—that bind agents independently of any contribution to happiness.

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    • 1.Appeals to 'intuition' lack empirical justification and vary across cultures, suggesting psychology rather than objective truth.
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    • 2.Prima facie duties conflict with no principled resolution method, making the framework practically indeterminate in real moral dilemmas.
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    • 3.Duties' independence from consequences seems arbitrary—why should promise-keeping bind us if it causes serious harm?
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    • 1.Moral intuitions about duties (promise-keeping, honesty) feel binding even when breaking them increases overall happiness.
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    • 2.Reducing all morality to happiness consequences fails to explain why we owe special duties to those we've made commitments to.
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    • 3.Prima facie duties provide a framework that respects moral pluralism without collapsing into single-principle utilitarianism.
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