RE: Moral Oughts
August 2, 2019 at 9:15 am
(This post was last modified: August 2, 2019 at 9:18 am by Acrobat.)
(August 2, 2019 at 8:56 am)Gae Bolga Wrote: Then there you have it, caring about being put in jail is subjective, being put in jail is not.
Duh. I’m not really sure what it is your trying to argue here?
You yourself have claimed that oughts are not objective truths, unlike good and bad which are.
So not sure what your actually trying to argue here?
That non-objective/subjective things can contain factual elements, while not being objective truths themselves. Sure, I’ve indicated that myself
Quote:Or, you’re right, and your morality is subjective, because caring makes a morality subjective.
No, I’ll say it slowly. Caring only makes morality subjective if right are wrong are based on whether we care or not. A position that you nor I hold, so quit with the strawman.
Quote: You don’t really have anything to say about my words, because you won’t unclog your ears....
Oh the irony.
Quote:Caring is not the metric of objectivity or subjectivity.
Do you understand?
Who said caring is the metric of objectivity? In fact I explicitly denied this, when I stated that I see “I ought not steal” as an objective truth, when I don’t care one way or the other.