(August 17, 2017 at 10:43 pm)Khemikal Wrote: What part was confusing, the part where I explained that my moral system began with moral facts of a matter and proceeded by moral reasoning from there, or the part where I explained how I valued your life for the same reasons I value my own?
I guess because I'm not recognizing anything resembling a fundamental moral fact in your scheme. Moral opinions, yes, but not moral facts.
Secondly, I don't see why someone valuing his own life would necessarily believe someone else's has the same absolute value. It is obvious that people are not physically, mentally, or even emotionally equal. The concepts of human rights and human dignity are based on the notion of existential equality. You need a reason to believe people are existentially equal despite their natural and/or accidental differences. I don't see any such reason in your scheme.
