RE: Subjective Morality?
November 7, 2018 at 1:03 am
(This post was last modified: November 7, 2018 at 1:15 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(November 6, 2018 at 11:57 pm)bennyboy Wrote: I can easily think of properties of rape that make me feel bad about it, and to consider it foreign to my world view. I cannot think of any objective property at all that makes rape (or murder or a button that brings the entire Universe to and end or anything else) wrong without the assessment of a feeling agent.You can, and you concede as much simply by making the statement above.
If some property of rape makes you x y or z, then there are properties of rape which you observe and to which you respond and about which you have beliefs. This is the realists contention as well. The question then becomes..why do you feel that your own observations and positions on this matter are inadequate or insufficient? Are your beliefs never true? Are your observations always false?
Quote:That's right. "Rape" already carries with it negative connotations, which they would not accept. I think you can reasonably infer that I mean "what we call rape, and consider morally wrong, would not be considered wrong in another social context." It's very possible that the girl herself, while she might not like the forced sex at all, and might in fact very much dislike it, may not conceive of it as morally wrong.
It's possible, at least, but not in any way difficult for realism. Though, I'd have to wonder how many people in the history of people really had no significant misgivings about forced sex..that they weren't enjoying, and very much disliked. How would that tie in with the notion that morality is just an analog for "yuck!". If that were true, it seems like it would fit this case. Your hypothetical here, while possible, is inconsistent with your comments regarding the nature of what makes something bad in the first place.
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