RE: Is it true that there is no absolute morality?
March 21, 2017 at 8:52 am
(This post was last modified: March 21, 2017 at 8:56 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(March 19, 2017 at 8:27 pm)bennyboy Wrote: Under at least one definition, definitely-- they are a legacy of mechanisms in place before any individual subjective agent came into existence, and in a determinism, that agency can be disregarded (as has often been in our discussions of mind/matter). Under the definition "best action at a given moment," it depends what resolution of detail you're talking about. There might be some god-level action where literally every molecule in the body would be ideally placed, and that would be impossible to achieve. In other cases, you have a binary decision-- kill the baby / don't kill the baby, in which case you'd have a 50% chance of your action exactly conforming to the moral fact-- given a moral goal.
I don't have reservations, so long as things are defined as I define them.
Well, objectivity itself is not altered by any disagreements we have as to the contents of it's metrics - which is why moral disagreement is not an objection to objective morality. While I may have reservations as to what you think the proper objective metrics of morality may be (what the moral facts are)...or even where they come from.....what we would both be agreeing to was the possibility of an objective morality. That someone else defines their metrics differently shouldn't stop you from granting them the descriptor objective. There could be a great many metrics for morality which would be objective in precisely the same way that your own stated metrics are objective..even if you..or you and I together, were in moral disagreement with those metrics, as we are in moral disagreement with each other. Agreed?
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