(August 1, 2019 at 7:02 pm)Acrobat Wrote:(August 1, 2019 at 6:29 pm)Grandizer Wrote: Ok, so let's put it this way:
P: People I care about would react strongly against me if I steal someone else's wallet.
C: I ought not to steal someone else's wallet.
Where would the subjective bit here be exactly? P seems to indicate an objective truth (if true), not a subjective one. If it's true, it's true regardless of what you or I may think.
Because C doesn't follow from P
P: People I care about would react strongly against me if I support black lives matter.
C: I ought not support black lives matter.
P: People I care about would react strongly against me if I steal someone's wallet.
A:it makes me feel really bad if they reacted strongly against me, and I'm scared of the risk that they'll find out.
C: I ought not steal some one else's wallet.
You're missing something like A, in yours. And perhaps you can seen why A is a subjective bit in my version.
It's not meant to be a 100% deductive argument. The conclusion is a reasonable conclusion, not the conclusion of a logically valid argument.
And A is objectively true, because it would be true regardless of what you may think about it.
See why I don't like the subjective vs. objective question?
