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    Supports→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

    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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    Key Terms

    Authority-independence(as used in ethics)
    The quality of being able to stand on its own without needing someone in charge to tell you it's true or important.
    Definitional core(as used in ethics)
    The essential, most important part that makes something what it is—the absolute foundation. For morality, this would be the fundamental feature that makes something 'moral' or 'immoral.'
    Diverge(as used in comparing objects)
    To become increasingly different from each other; to move apart in characteristics or properties.
    Harm-based justification(as used in ethics)
    The idea that an action is right or wrong based on whether it causes pain, injury, or damage to someone. It's a way of deciding morality by looking at who gets hurt.
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    (as used in ethics)
    A special or superior way of mixing different ideas together that deserves to be treated as the main or best version. Here, it means no single mix of these three ideas can be the ultimate definition.
    Systematically(as describing a consistent problem with voting methods)
    Happening as a regular pattern or built-in feature of how something works, rather than by accident or rarely.
    universality(Distinguishing the nature as such from its mode of universality)
    Not a constitutive mark of the common nature itself, but its unique and inseparable property

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