RE: Any Nihilists here?
August 24, 2023 at 1:39 pm
(This post was last modified: August 24, 2023 at 1:46 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
It hardly matters to me whether you have an emotional response to infant stomping. Doesn't matter to the infant, either, they're getting stomped whether you do or don't. Thing is, like cat, if there was any real confusion about what I'm talking about with either thing, that demonstration is the bottom of it. It's literally not possible to give a more direct or less complicated demonstration of anything.
So lets posit you don't have an emotional reaction to infant stomping - fine? You've still been given an example of what I'm talking about, so you know what that is and can assess my moral statements for their factual status accordingly.
Is this the point where I suggest that you're not really a nihilist, just amoral? That you can see and understand the meaning - you just don't have an emotional response to any of it? Or do you, like me, think.."well, if bad is stealing a baby's sucker evil must be stealing a sucker from the corpse you made by stomping the baby to death."
"A property of the stomping" is actually a very good way to explain the difference between subjectivism, relativism, and realism. If you accept that what I'm talking about is that kind of thing, you've accepted the basis of moral realism.
So lets posit you don't have an emotional reaction to infant stomping - fine? You've still been given an example of what I'm talking about, so you know what that is and can assess my moral statements for their factual status accordingly.
Is this the point where I suggest that you're not really a nihilist, just amoral? That you can see and understand the meaning - you just don't have an emotional response to any of it? Or do you, like me, think.."well, if bad is stealing a baby's sucker evil must be stealing a sucker from the corpse you made by stomping the baby to death."
"A property of the stomping" is actually a very good way to explain the difference between subjectivism, relativism, and realism. If you accept that what I'm talking about is that kind of thing, you've accepted the basis of moral realism.
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