Subjective Morality?

[bennyboy]

I'd like an example of any moral idea that isn't predicated on negative feelings.  Maybe I'm wrong, though you can imagine that I kind of doubt it.

Fine.  Rape is wrong.  That isn't predicated upon negative feelings.  I may have negative feeling about rape, but my belief that it is wrong isn't predicated on them.  Satisfied?

As I said in my last post, "predicated upon" doesn't mean that once established, moral feelings aren't verbalized. If nobody cared about rape, and strongly so, there would be no moral rule about it.

The entire code of law is pretty dry, but I'd argue that under the hood, 100% of all of it represents a mediation among various feelings (read: instincts, if you want). We have feelings about property, about health, and so on.

How does one arrive at any value judgment rationally, if it does not have at its foundation some desire or fear? All we can do is say, "We've arrived at the idea of social contract, through a desire from mutual protection from harm (which we fear), and for opportunity (which we hope for). We each want liberty, and are willing to extend it." And then say that rape constitutes a violation of those ultimately emotional value judgments?

I suppose you could talk about something like moral-fact-in-context. GIVEN the sanctity of liberty, then you can say that the restraint of another person for sexual purposes constitutes a violation of that moral rule.