RE: Any Nihilists here?
August 21, 2023 at 7:50 am
(This post was last modified: August 21, 2023 at 7:50 am by FrustratedFool.)
Whether fine with it or not it still wouldn't be coming from anywhere.
It would still be the same ballpark methodology to argue that Bob being hurt/punched was against his preferences and the measure of the one metre rope.
But then adding on the extra statement, 'And thus punching people who don't want to be punched is objectively wrong' is coming from out of space. It cannot be verified or falsified, cannot be observed or measured etc.
What units is 'wrongness' measured in? How are they detected? How can the wrongness of punching be falsified or verified?
You get the gist. They are different. The thing you said you wanted to avoid. That's why, I suspect, you find trying to convince someone of moral realism more frustrating than, say, convincing them of some historical or physical fact.
It would still be the same ballpark methodology to argue that Bob being hurt/punched was against his preferences and the measure of the one metre rope.
But then adding on the extra statement, 'And thus punching people who don't want to be punched is objectively wrong' is coming from out of space. It cannot be verified or falsified, cannot be observed or measured etc.
What units is 'wrongness' measured in? How are they detected? How can the wrongness of punching be falsified or verified?
You get the gist. They are different. The thing you said you wanted to avoid. That's why, I suspect, you find trying to convince someone of moral realism more frustrating than, say, convincing them of some historical or physical fact.
