Not A Poll: Does Motivation Affect Morality?

[Excited Penguin]

Laws are objective in that way, is what I meant.

I said 'out there' because I was thinking of it being in action, such as controlling and influencing outward behaviour, and that's because I was mainly speaking about laws. I didn't mean anything else by it.

I agree epistemically objective morality can be true, but I'm not sure how it applies to laws. I say 'in there' because I believe the objectivity is in the unbiased minds of those being epistemically objective, and so in a sense objective morality is true, although I wouldn't say it existed or was 'out there' for that seems to be talking more about moral ontology.

-Hammy

When I'm talking about objective morality being out there, I'm not talking about the electrical impulses in the brain that give rise to it, but about their effect in the external world. So I would describe an instance of objective morality at work as someone performing an objectively moral act. In that sense, objective morality is not only inside the mind, but also out there, in the world.