(April 27, 2017 at 11:56 am)Whateverist Wrote: Also, any argument for an ultimate grounding would have to account for the fact that acting against even those considerations which we embrace in theory is absolutely commonplace given the least of incentives. Oughts are often inconvenient and all too easily ignored regardless of the grounding.
I think this is very easily explained: it comes down to a conflict of motivations, rather than a conflict of moral ideas. Nobody really thinks that murder is okay-- yet people sometimes murder due to the emotional motivations of jealousy, greed, and so on.
