(August 23, 2019 at 2:43 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: We’ve gone over this countless times. Someone else’s necessarily subjective level of motivation does not effect a moral schema. If it’s true, and someone rejects it, it’s still true. People reject the truth with regularity, lol.
So, yes, if don’t harm do help is an accurate description of what we’re talking about with morality and normative statements....then to decide otherwise would be to choose a pleasant fiction.
Which people can, and do......do. Moral failure.
Exactly.
Again, I am not sure what is so hard about this.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
