On Moral Authorities

[The Grand Nudger]

1) Yes, but the point in asking you what they mean is to investigate if you mean the same thing by those words as my own language intends. If you mean "helpful" in bringing about human happiness, then you really fall in the realist/aristotelian category while using your own vocabulary (which is fine). In other words, you may be excluding yourself incorrectly. And, after all, I did admit to painting with a very broad brush.

Obviously not what I mean.  You can help someone, and it won;t necessarily lead "the happiest human life", you can harm someone...and it might.  As broad as your brush is, it missed me completely.

2) Right, and I am pretty sure we are in agreement, so no need to attempt to distinguish yourself as existing in a third category.

We're not.  

3) HA! I wonder why YOU would find your OWN language SELF-explanatory? =) Talk with enough people and you will find that people often use similar words with subtle, important, and non-obvious nuances.

I think that they;re self explanatory because they;re painfully simple terms that very few human beings fail to understand and I don;t mean anything subtle or tricky about them whatsoever.  

Sigh.  I'll say to you what I've said to other posters. If this, simplest of moral systems, leaves you confounded in any way as to what I or they mean.....if you don't know why it's wrong to harm someone, or why it's good to help someone, you do not possess moral agency, and therefore having a conversation regarding morality, with you, would be pointless.