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Interests crystallize into perceived moral commitments through psychological supervenience.

Interests crystallize into perceived moral commitments through psychological supervenience.

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Interests crystallize into perceived moral commitments through psychological supervenience.

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  • Trust necessarily stays moored in expectations and interests (similarity 0.81)
  • Driving on the correct side is coordination of interests, not moral compliance. (similarity 0.81)
  • Institutional and legal constraints give people strong external incentives to be trustworthy (similarity 0.80)
  • Even self-professed believers intuit God as mainly monitoring negative moral acts (similarity 0.80)
  • Trust that seems purely moral actually supervenes on prior shared interests. (similarity 0.79)
  • Trust is merely evidence-based expectation while trustworthiness is motivational (similarity 0.79)
  • An ultimate power to decide generates its own norms and cannot be trusted (similarity 0.79)
  • Self-interest-based relationships become psychologically experienced as moral commitments (similarity 0.79)
  • Power generates the will of the power-holder rather than serving it (similarity 0.79)
  • Smith saw market interdependence as replacing fragile trust with self-reinforcing mutual interest. (similarity 0.78)
  • Parasitic cheating thrives where trust is generalized from trustworthy settings (similarity 0.78)
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  • Driving on the correct side is coordination of interests, not moral compliance.
  • Even self-professed believers intuit God as mainly monitoring negative moral acts
  • Interest as pleasure-pain desire causes all thought and naming
  • Learned normative reactions can motivate behavior without any prior interests.
  • Morality resembles a self-enforcing contract between present and future selves.
  • Morality serves a self-directed ego function of constructing moral identity.
  • People feel moral obligations they never actually agreed to.