RE: Deconversion and some doubts
July 30, 2019 at 3:41 pm
(This post was last modified: July 30, 2019 at 3:43 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Quote:Correct, without a moral goal a moral structure is just a moral structure.....which is to say exactly what you just quoted me saying.......?(July 29, 2019 at 5:50 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: A moral goal and a moral structure are not ubiquitously interchangeable. A person can understand and accept the structure without having or pursuing a stated goal.
We can know something is shitty and have no interest in avoiding it. VV, as well, of course. It’s silly to say, in a system that uses harm as the moral metric, that being harmful isn’t what makes something “bad”. That’s baked into harm based morality by definition. Objective or subjective.
Without a moral goal, such as we ought not do things that are harmful to others, the structure is just a structure. You'd just be indicating the physical details of that structure. By calling the structure moral, you're sneaking in moral goals. Without goals, subjective or objective, moral statements would be incoherent.
Statements aren’t made coherent or incoherent on account of whether or not a person uses that statement as a goal.
For example- I could make the following statement. You are abjectly ignorant of the entire subject of moral philosophy. Now, you won’t make my statement some goal of yours, you aren’t going to run out and fix that problem -and then- respond.......but it’s still a coherent statement.....regardless of whether or not you agree with it or make it some personal goal.
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