RE: What would be the harm?
December 5, 2018 at 9:08 pm
(This post was last modified: December 5, 2018 at 9:16 pm by bennyboy.)
(December 5, 2018 at 6:10 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: Yes, we ought to care about this and that, and any rational being could be made to understand why in reference to objective values...but that won't actually mean that they will. A moral failure..in the objectivists schema, is a rational failure.
Why ought we? On what basis do you say we ought to do anything? 14 pages in, and you haven't answered this.
My answer is that there's nothing objectively wrong with any material state. However, feelings provide a context. People feel bad about the idea of having their daughters raped and murdered, so they negotiate a rule: "In our society, it will be considered wrong to rape and murder." If they didn't give a shit, they wouldn't have the feelings, and wouldn't bother to arrive at the rule. It's not the existence of rape which causes the rule to be made-- it's the feelings of subjective agents about the rape.
Your turn.
