RE: If it wasn't for religion
January 31, 2019 at 7:52 pm
(This post was last modified: January 31, 2019 at 7:59 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(January 31, 2019 at 7:48 pm)Acrobat Wrote: Sure, even If i sucked at discerning all the elements that compose the things that I find taste good, it’s possible that I could feed a computer with all the different foods that I like, and it churns out a variety of things to try, with a high predictably that I’d find those things to be good as well.Sure.
This seems to be true of all our subjective preferences, like music, fashion, movies, the sort of people we find good looking, ugly etc.
Quote:All the things that go into the good category and bad category, are based on a variety of physical traits and criteria of the things being categorized one way or the other. You’ll find bland foods in the bad category, spicy and sweet foods in the good category, dark skinned, skinny girls in the good category, fat, pail girls in the bad category. Music that sounds like Justin Bieber in the good category, music that sounds like death metal in the bad category.Sure
Quote:If we applied your logic, at the end of the day all the things that would have fallen into the subjective category, would now fall under the objective category, without no real substance difference taking place in this transition.Nope. Why are you so committed to shitting the bed? The categories are simple and self defining. Subjective facts are mind dependent, objective facts are not. Both are facts, one set are facts of a person, the other facts of a matter. Colloqually, we call one set facts and one set opinions.
Quote:Good becomes a property of the objects themselves. Justin Bieber being a good musician becomes an objective fact, and no longer a subjective preference.
Still fishing.

He -is- an objectively good musician..even if you don't like him. That's why he's rich and in music..and you're poor and not.
This, above, is an artifact of using objective criteria as the certifying empirical fact, rather than your opinions as the certifying fact. Moral realism works much the same way. There are many criteria by which we may call something "good" or "bad"...a great many of which simply are subjective. That doesn't mean that they all are, or that any use of the term must by necessity be.
I'm not going to humor you for another post unless this becomes a two way relationship. Confront the fact that you made a statement in ignorance, knowing nothing about me, my morality, secularism, or moral realism.
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