RE: Moral Oughts
August 2, 2019 at 10:38 am
(This post was last modified: August 2, 2019 at 10:43 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Doesn’t matter, no one’s told you that you should or shouldn’t do only the things you care about.
That probably is what you will do, though, lol.
You’re arguing with yourself.
Grand mentioned that you shouldn’t take the wallet for, among other reasons, the fact if you’re caught, you’ll be fined or jailed.
Fact check- true. Not his opinion, nothing to do with whether or not you care. Now, you may not care about the wallet, or even that stealing the wallet is wrong, or whether you’ll get fined or go to jail- but that doesn’t mean that any fact is no longer a fact.
It just means that you’re an irrational loon who can’t be compelled out of goodness or self interest.
Your confusion here is easy to clear up with the terms and distinctions employed in moral theory.....but I already know what you think about learning anything about moral theory while you ask questions about moral systems.
That probably is what you will do, though, lol.
You’re arguing with yourself.
Grand mentioned that you shouldn’t take the wallet for, among other reasons, the fact if you’re caught, you’ll be fined or jailed.
Fact check- true. Not his opinion, nothing to do with whether or not you care. Now, you may not care about the wallet, or even that stealing the wallet is wrong, or whether you’ll get fined or go to jail- but that doesn’t mean that any fact is no longer a fact.
It just means that you’re an irrational loon who can’t be compelled out of goodness or self interest.
Your confusion here is easy to clear up with the terms and distinctions employed in moral theory.....but I already know what you think about learning anything about moral theory while you ask questions about moral systems.
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