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Passage: Metaethical Constructivism often points to the 'Gold Standard' of money as an analogy. A dollar bill has no intrinsic value; its value is 'constructed' by social agreement and institutional backing. However, once constructed, the value is an objective fact: you cannot simply 'decide' that your dollar is worth twenty. Similarly, constructivists argue that while we created the moral 'currency' of rights and duties, those rights are now objective facts within our social reality.
Question: Based on the passage's analogy, what would be the most effective way for a 'moral skeptic' to attack constructivism?
- By arguing that some people are better at managing money than others.
- By claiming that gold has a physical weight and thus is not truly constructed.
- By pointing out that if the social agreement collapses (e.g., during a hyperinflation or civil war), the 'objective' moral facts vanish instantly.
- By asserting that morality was actually discovered by ancient prophets rather than created by social groups.
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