MCAT

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Passage (CARS): Read the following excerpt and answer the question below. "Moral realists hold that there are objective moral facts — facts about what is right or wrong that hold independently of what any individual or culture believes. On this view, to say 'torture is wrong' is to assert something that is either objectively true or false, in the same way that 'water boils at 100°C at sea level' is either true or false. Moral anti-realists deny this, holding that moral judgments are not truth-apt (expressivism), or that while they can be true or false, their truth is constituted by human attitudes, not by mind-independent facts (constructivism). The debate has practical implications: realists argue that cross-cultural moral criticism is coherent (one culture can be genuinely wrong about slavery), while anti-realists worry that realism smuggles in ideological assumptions by treating contingent cultural norms as objective facts." According to the passage, what is the primary practical implication of moral realism cited by its proponents?

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