(January 28, 2019 at 3:47 pm)Acrobat Wrote:(January 28, 2019 at 3:31 pm)unfogged Wrote: Please provide an example of a moral purpose or aim that is provided to us by a reality.
One ought to be good.
One ought to do what is good, one ought not do what is bad.
Neither of those is an example of what I asked for as they are nothing more than opinion and, without a definitions of "good" and "bad" they are effectively meaningless. If somebody defines "good" as "slaughtering the Midianites and keeping the virgin women for yourself" then wholesale slaughter, salvery, and sex trafficking become moral. There is no reality, other than the actions of people who disagree with you, to prevent you from declaring that as "good". The universe does not care; only the opinions of other thinking agents will get in your way. If you decide, on the other hand, that gravity should be a repulsive force you will quickly learn that your opinion is at odds with actual reality.
