Subjective Morality?

[bennyboy]

There are no physical facts about morality.  There are physical facts which one considers morally.

Show me any physical fact which is moral in nature.

Pain hurts!


(I’m drunk, sorry.)

Edit:  I know I’m drunk but I think I stand by my statement.  It is true that pain is bad for the person who experiences it.  So, very broadly speaking, “causing another person pain is wrong”, is a moral fact.  Ofc, there are exceptions, but I’m talking in a very general, undifferentiated sense of the statement.

*goes for more booze and hopes no one notices this post*

I'd say three things about that:

1)  I feel that some people should be made to suffer.  Their suffering gives me pleasure because harm caused to them represents a great good.

2)  Suffering is not intrinsically bad.

3)  The distinction between human and animal species points to the fact that the moral narrative is dependent on the social contract.  What is intrinsically less bad about chickens suffering for your dinner, than about Jews getting roasted in an oven?

"I don't care, they're not people" isn't really that different than "I don't care, they're Japs," "I don't care, they're niggers" or "I don't care, they're Republicans."  Except in people's (purely subjective) minds.