RE: If it wasn't for religion
January 29, 2019 at 11:52 am
(This post was last modified: January 29, 2019 at 12:07 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
No, you're not merely doing any such thing, lol....you are vehemently disagreeing with realists who do not conform to your superstitions.
You're simply unwilling to discuss or justify or even acknowledge your superstitions aside from slips of the tongue you readily pedal away from. Hell, you abandoned the previous thread and cranked up the crank engine in this one by repeating your facetious assertions there, here.
Moral realism is a position which asserts that there are moral facts of a matter - it does not assert that the universe or reality speaks to us, provides us with aims or goals, or sets our deontological obligations. It acknowledges that we seek out whatever inferences we can make by reference to whatever facts we possess, and that we set our deontological obligations in reference to our goals as they pertain to those facts.
In short, moral realism is the position which describes morality as the thing you call impossible, the thing you think that no one can do. You posit that if the superstitions which you hold are false..then all is permissible, whereas moral realists posit that your superstitions are irrelevant, they can be false to no moral effect..because all that is required is for some moral fact of a matter to be true.
You have convinced yourself or been convinced that you are the realist in this exchange, when, in point of fact..you simply aren't. The notion likely arises from a conflation of the perceptual truth of superstitions to the conceptual truth of a moral proposition. You think your superstitions are true, so they must describe the true morality, and be required of it.
You're simply unwilling to discuss or justify or even acknowledge your superstitions aside from slips of the tongue you readily pedal away from. Hell, you abandoned the previous thread and cranked up the crank engine in this one by repeating your facetious assertions there, here.
Moral realism is a position which asserts that there are moral facts of a matter - it does not assert that the universe or reality speaks to us, provides us with aims or goals, or sets our deontological obligations. It acknowledges that we seek out whatever inferences we can make by reference to whatever facts we possess, and that we set our deontological obligations in reference to our goals as they pertain to those facts.
In short, moral realism is the position which describes morality as the thing you call impossible, the thing you think that no one can do. You posit that if the superstitions which you hold are false..then all is permissible, whereas moral realists posit that your superstitions are irrelevant, they can be false to no moral effect..because all that is required is for some moral fact of a matter to be true.
You have convinced yourself or been convinced that you are the realist in this exchange, when, in point of fact..you simply aren't. The notion likely arises from a conflation of the perceptual truth of superstitions to the conceptual truth of a moral proposition. You think your superstitions are true, so they must describe the true morality, and be required of it.
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