[split] Are Questions About God Important?

[The Grand Nudger]

How things are, and whether we should care about or be motivated by them (if they were whatever way x being proposed) could be the same question, might not be the same question, or it may be an open question.

Say that the world really was metaethically subjective. That's the way things are. No more bickering!

-Well, if so, then why should I care?

Or maybe, above still a given, we could notice that people succeed and fail by every notion of meaning or import or morality they hold - even in their own apprehension. With nothing other than self interest to guide us, and with our acknowledgement of some thing x as self interest - we can still find ourselves unmotivated, demoralized, afraid.

-Things may be that given way, but whether or not that motivates us is an altogether different question that does have a significant component of externality to it. Namely, circumstance.

Or maybe they really are the same question. Maybe we can't understand what anyone is talking about with the terms meaning, or import, or morality aside from the understanding that these are terms we use to refer explicitly to what we care about. That if we understood what any of them were, we would also - by that same token, understand why we should care.

-Perhaps, in such a given world, for genuinely subjectivist understandings of meaning or import why we should care is a non starter. That we do is the meaning, import, or moral making property in the first place.