RE: Moral Obligations toward Possible Worlds
May 7, 2021 at 2:38 pm
(This post was last modified: May 7, 2021 at 2:58 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
You've explicitly and repeatedly made such an argument, laying out examples of moral disagreements, and then declaring that is it thus clear that we're arguing opinions or intuitions rather than facts.
I can't recall having ever imagined that vaccinating my kids was evil - but I'm sure that I could come up with some scenario where it could be or would be and then I and some other person could argue over the morality of vaccinating our kids...and none of that argument would suggest or imply that either of us weren't being consciously rational, or that there could be no true fact to bicker over. The rational foundations of morality are, at least in the view I hold, the same rational foundations applied to any other rational or rationalized things. I talk about moral things and conceive of moral things in the same way that I talk about the color of a thing, and statements about the color of a thing. There's never been any question as to whether or not moral systems can have rational foundations. Or that we can employ reason. It's an open question whether or not any given rational moral system is the Right™ system, ofc.
I tend to assume that none of them are. That no single claim to moral foundations will accurately and fully express whatever amount of objectivity we might find in any moral proposition. There's alot to describe, and some of those actual facts could be in actual competition with each other. We'd argue about them. We'd disagree. It may be a fact that abortion is bad, and it may be a concurrent fact that outlawing abortion is bad, for example. It may be a fact that we have responibilities to others, and in either case, we are going to fail one set of responsibilities by necessity of satisfying the other.
I can't recall having ever imagined that vaccinating my kids was evil - but I'm sure that I could come up with some scenario where it could be or would be and then I and some other person could argue over the morality of vaccinating our kids...and none of that argument would suggest or imply that either of us weren't being consciously rational, or that there could be no true fact to bicker over. The rational foundations of morality are, at least in the view I hold, the same rational foundations applied to any other rational or rationalized things. I talk about moral things and conceive of moral things in the same way that I talk about the color of a thing, and statements about the color of a thing. There's never been any question as to whether or not moral systems can have rational foundations. Or that we can employ reason. It's an open question whether or not any given rational moral system is the Right™ system, ofc.
I tend to assume that none of them are. That no single claim to moral foundations will accurately and fully express whatever amount of objectivity we might find in any moral proposition. There's alot to describe, and some of those actual facts could be in actual competition with each other. We'd argue about them. We'd disagree. It may be a fact that abortion is bad, and it may be a concurrent fact that outlawing abortion is bad, for example. It may be a fact that we have responibilities to others, and in either case, we are going to fail one set of responsibilities by necessity of satisfying the other.
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