RE: Moral Oughts
August 2, 2019 at 8:56 am
(This post was last modified: August 2, 2019 at 9:04 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Then there you have it, caring about being put in jail is subjective, being put in jail is not.
Or, you’re right, and your morality is subjective, because caring makes a morality subjective.
You’re only arguing with yourself. You don’t really have anything to say about my words, because you won’t unclog your ears....and none of my words matter when you’re arguing with yourself, anyway.
You see, unlike you I’m capable of intelligent self assessment. I’d love it if all of my oughts were inarguably objective, because I’m a moral realist. Thing is, I’m also a human being, and that presents a hard barrier to pure objectivity. Even this doesn’t matter, since none of my objective oughts would be made subjective in account of caring about them anymore than any of my subjective oughts would be made objective on account of how I didn’t care about them.
Caring is not the metric of objectivity or subjectivity in moral systems.
Do you understand?
Or, you’re right, and your morality is subjective, because caring makes a morality subjective.
You’re only arguing with yourself. You don’t really have anything to say about my words, because you won’t unclog your ears....and none of my words matter when you’re arguing with yourself, anyway.
You see, unlike you I’m capable of intelligent self assessment. I’d love it if all of my oughts were inarguably objective, because I’m a moral realist. Thing is, I’m also a human being, and that presents a hard barrier to pure objectivity. Even this doesn’t matter, since none of my objective oughts would be made subjective in account of caring about them anymore than any of my subjective oughts would be made objective on account of how I didn’t care about them.
Caring is not the metric of objectivity or subjectivity in moral systems.
Do you understand?
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