Does anyone own "The Moral Landscape"?

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It sounds like you’re saying there must be some objective moral facts, which line up with your views, because you’d be uncomfortable if there weren’t.

Expecting a subjective idea to be objective is a mismatch. Notice that saying there is no objective morality is not the same as saying everything is objectively fine. It’s saying you’re trying to use two ideas which aren’t compatible.

If there was some cosmic inherent objective morality, it would have to be arbitrary from our point of view, because our opinion about what it should say is completely irrelevant. Why should it even be concerned with humans particularly? The alternative is that you’re just promoting your own morality to be objective, and anyone can do that. This just results in an individual objective morality for everyone, which is just the same as saying it’s subjective. It’s either some feature of reality itself, or it's an artificial construct we make to judge things. It can’t be both. If we’re trying to model it, then we have no way of testing what this cosmic judgement might be for each action. It would be like a number coming up on a screen outside our reality. Why should anyone care about that?

Morality doesn’t do anything, it’s not some law of reality like other physical laws. It’s just a way of assessing actions against some sort of scale. If it was inherent, it would make no difference. Things would be exactly the same.