RE: Any Nihilists here?
August 24, 2023 at 12:45 pm
(This post was last modified: August 24, 2023 at 12:57 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Evil seems to mean something like extrabad, or pointless bad. That's not really up to moral realism to define - just language. IDK whether or not evil exists, but at least with how permissive I tend to be it would seem like it only lived in the margins.
Additionally, moral realism doesn't tell us whether or not god exists. It works either way (to the nuts great discontent). It does say that the content we're describing when we talk about morality is external to us, and exists, though..yeah. I'd call gods entirely internal. The god we're describing (when we describe them) only exists in the mind, whereas the harm I describe (when I describe it) is out there in the world.
The commitment I make to realism in general... which is the source of my moral realism, also tells me that I can't really be agnostic about the subject. When I say gods don't exist, I'm also attempting to express a fact, rather than an opinion, about the world "out there" rather than "in here".
Additionally, moral realism doesn't tell us whether or not god exists. It works either way (to the nuts great discontent). It does say that the content we're describing when we talk about morality is external to us, and exists, though..yeah. I'd call gods entirely internal. The god we're describing (when we describe them) only exists in the mind, whereas the harm I describe (when I describe it) is out there in the world.
The commitment I make to realism in general... which is the source of my moral realism, also tells me that I can't really be agnostic about the subject. When I say gods don't exist, I'm also attempting to express a fact, rather than an opinion, about the world "out there" rather than "in here".
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