(March 10, 2017 at 9:45 am)bennyboy Wrote: But if you are arguing something like "There's no objective morality," then I choose to interpret that in the most generous term possible: "There's no sensible definition of morality which can be said to be objective." In this case, I've already given an example of a definition that I'd call objective: "The capacity or tendency to act based on a sense of social fairness or balance." In other words, not to look at any of the moral ideas at all, but at the moral mechanism, which to me precedes moral agency.
Deliberately and explicitly committing the fallacies of equivocation and straw man argumentation is a bold strategy, I'll admit.
I'm just not sure of its actual value.
"Owl," said Rabbit shortly, "you and I have brains. The others have fluff. If there is any thinking to be done in this Forest - and when I say thinking I mean thinking - you and I must do it."
- A. A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner
- A. A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner