RE: What would be the harm?
December 2, 2018 at 3:34 pm
(This post was last modified: December 2, 2018 at 3:41 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Do you really wish to maintain an insistence that harm cannot be objectively quantified? Unless you wish to maintain that insistence..then..no, you haven't shown that my argument, that harm can be objective, has failed to establish my conclusion. That conclusion being..that harm can be objective. That, because you can meausure the depth of a wound and in doing so establish that this wound is not a mind dependent fact...that I have been wounded, that I am harmed....that it is objective as moral theorists discuss objectivity and mind indepedence. That this is one of the things we refer to when we say "x has harmed y" - as webster so conveniently laid out.
Simple. Object to -that-.........or concede and we can move forward to other things which you may object to. Moral objectivity may be wrong, in the end..but if it is, it isn't for this reason...because the presence of some wound or some damage or some harm is, by any sensible definition of objective......objective.
Or, you know, paint yourself into a corner of absurdity, your call. : shrugs :
(that is -all- that moral theorists are referring to with objectivity...fin, caput, the end, done and done, qed...follow?)
Simple. Object to -that-.........or concede and we can move forward to other things which you may object to. Moral objectivity may be wrong, in the end..but if it is, it isn't for this reason...because the presence of some wound or some damage or some harm is, by any sensible definition of objective......objective.
Or, you know, paint yourself into a corner of absurdity, your call. : shrugs :
(that is -all- that moral theorists are referring to with objectivity...fin, caput, the end, done and done, qed...follow?)
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