(November 30, 2018 at 5:07 pm)bennyboy Wrote: tbh, to me, it's all just ambiguous semantics.Well, yeah..sure. That's the intuitivist response. Same as you or I saying that somethings "are" cats. We definitely have disagreements, but that doesn't actually mean that there isn't one correct answer among all that competition.
You say things "are" bad, but I think it's more accurate to say that badness is in the eye of the beholder, if not of individual men, then of mankind.
I want you to know that I agree with you here, badness -is- commonly in the eye of the beholder. To a realist, however, this is a form of ever present moral failure and a consequence of our necessarrily subjective nature. We fail not because there is no way to succeed...but because we are not always capable of seeing that way or..when we see it, sometimes..we just don't wanna/don't care.
Quote:First, I'd want to know what you mean by "bad," if it's not simply something that we have negative emotions toward. What does the word even mean, and why do you feel justified using it in an objective sense at all?Take it away webster!
Quote:: failing to reach an acceptable standard : a bad repair jobhttps://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bad
b: make a bad impression
c: not fresh : bad fish
d: not sound : the house was in bad condition
2a: morally objectionable : bad men
b: MISCHIEVOUS, a bad dog
3: inadequate or unsuited to a purposea bad planbad lighting
4: DISAGREEABLE, bad news
5a: INJURIOUS, a bad influence
b: SERIOUS, in bad troublea bad cough
6: INCORRECT, bad grammar
7a: suffering pain or distressfelt generally bad
b: UNHEALTHY, bad teeth
8: SORROWFUL, feels bad about forgetting to call
9a: INVALID, a bad check
b: not able to be collecteda bad debt
10badder; baddest slang
a: GOOD, one of the baddest songwriters to be found anywhere— Black Collegian
b: TOUGH, the baddest guy on the block
So, what do you think. Are any of the uses on that list something that might describe a meaningful objectivity?
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