RE: Moral Oughts
August 1, 2019 at 7:37 pm
(This post was last modified: August 1, 2019 at 7:38 pm by GrandizerII.)
(August 1, 2019 at 7:31 pm)Acrobat Wrote:(August 1, 2019 at 7:21 pm)Grandizer Wrote: 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?
Pretty much any subjective taste, opinion, contains some elements of a factual nature. Like my taste in food, is predicated on particular flavor combinations, etc...
The reason your above is subjective, is because C is only true for you, and follows from a subjective component like A, not P, that you just didn't include.
C wouldn't follow from P if you didn't care how people reacted to you, or found the risk of getting caught negligible to the point of being non-existent.
Yes, I said as much a page ago that the selection of reason bit is subjective. The argument applies to me, not necessarily to you. But I've given an example argument as to why I ought not to steal someone else's wallet, and it was based on facts, not opinion.
That said, I can apply it to you as well. Even if you won't agree with the imposition.