RE: Subjective Morality?
October 28, 2018 at 4:41 am
(This post was last modified: October 28, 2018 at 4:44 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Here's a fun thing to do, for those with a subjectivist bent. Imagine a moral assessment that you think is completely bonkers. X is wrong because...
Like, skullfucking your neighbor is wrong because a person can't water their plants while you do it.
...and then set that aside some moral assessment you find amenable.
Like, skullfucking your neighbor is wrong because it hurts real bad™.
Even if we concede that moral facts actually refer to people's opinions and judgements (rather than some mind independent property of x) - not all moral assessments are created equal. Hilariously, we think that..because we don't think that the plant watering guy is on-point with the relationship between his predicate and properties of x accurately identified.
We think that this person is bad at words - because morality isn't a term that signifies the watering of plants. I mean, we could say it, we could use it, we could redefine morality to be about the watering of plants..but then we'd need a new word for morality, because no matter what we call it we're talking about something other than the watering of plants.
All of this, to demonstrate that even in a subjective framework.....it's not really the case that we can't objectively compare metrics or systems and determine that one is more accurate than the next.
Like, skullfucking your neighbor is wrong because a person can't water their plants while you do it.
...and then set that aside some moral assessment you find amenable.
Like, skullfucking your neighbor is wrong because it hurts real bad™.
Even if we concede that moral facts actually refer to people's opinions and judgements (rather than some mind independent property of x) - not all moral assessments are created equal. Hilariously, we think that..because we don't think that the plant watering guy is on-point with the relationship between his predicate and properties of x accurately identified.
We think that this person is bad at words - because morality isn't a term that signifies the watering of plants. I mean, we could say it, we could use it, we could redefine morality to be about the watering of plants..but then we'd need a new word for morality, because no matter what we call it we're talking about something other than the watering of plants.
All of this, to demonstrate that even in a subjective framework.....it's not really the case that we can't objectively compare metrics or systems and determine that one is more accurate than the next.
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