RE: Subjective Morality?
October 29, 2018 at 9:38 pm
(This post was last modified: October 29, 2018 at 9:39 pm by bennyboy.)
(October 29, 2018 at 8:30 pm)Khemikal Wrote: Subjectivism contends that moral facts are an expression of states of belief, which are sometimes true, that are constituted by human opinion. Every true statement about a personally held opinion is the relevant fact to a moral subjectivist - ergo the moral fact, or moral fact of the matter. There probably are a gazillion of them.If you don't mind, I'd like to start with one objective moral fact, and move on from there. I don't need a gazillion, just one. I'm still pretty cozy with my view of morality-- that it is predicated mainly on our feelings about things, and that feelings about things are highly subjective.
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Quote:What's wrong is willfully disregarding perfectly arbitrary rules that have been AGREED UPON, because it represents an insult to the collective will of the society-- a willingness to endanger other citizens, and so on. And people don't like that.Why is that wrong?
It's not intrinsically wrong. It's one of the emotional positions people take. People don't like it when they follow rules, and other people disregard them. So they say, "Not following the rules of the road is wrong."