RE: Moral Oughts
August 29, 2019 at 8:28 pm
(This post was last modified: August 29, 2019 at 8:32 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Still not my problem that you see logical validity as “redundant”.
Never will be.
Believing that we ought not do bad is additional to believing that bad exists.
FWIW, none of us actually believe that we ought not do bad anyway. There’s always a provision for bad in service to good. There are a million silent premises and caveats to that statement.
But go ahead, continue to argue against the accurate statement of realist oughts until you’re blue in the face.
Never will be.
Believing that we ought not do bad is additional to believing that bad exists.
FWIW, none of us actually believe that we ought not do bad anyway. There’s always a provision for bad in service to good. There are a million silent premises and caveats to that statement.
But go ahead, continue to argue against the accurate statement of realist oughts until you’re blue in the face.
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