RE: The Principle of Contingent Causation: The Impossibility of Infinite Regress.
July 4, 2023 at 11:52 am
(This post was last modified: July 4, 2023 at 12:00 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
You tell others that if they wish to be moral subjectivists then they can go right ahead, and ofc they can - just as you have, positing that the morality maker is gods image and/or natural law. These are both explicitly subjective foundations. Compounding this error, you misunderstand moral objectivity which is explicitly.... contingent. A moral statement is true insomuch as it purports to report a fact and accurately does report that fact.
If you tell us why you think that rape or murder or apathy are wrong - we can likely imagine some possible world in which that explication will not hold. If, and only if... some set of specific facts are true in this world about rape, or murder..or apathy...not gods face™ or nature's law™, can we say that these things are objectively wrong.
What you've told us, instead, is that you believe some subjective moral law holds across all possible worlds. And also that you think moral subjectivism is absurd and probably evil. Good luck with all of that.
If you tell us why you think that rape or murder or apathy are wrong - we can likely imagine some possible world in which that explication will not hold. If, and only if... some set of specific facts are true in this world about rape, or murder..or apathy...not gods face™ or nature's law™, can we say that these things are objectively wrong.
What you've told us, instead, is that you believe some subjective moral law holds across all possible worlds. And also that you think moral subjectivism is absurd and probably evil. Good luck with all of that.
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