RE: Atheism and Ethics
June 7, 2024 at 1:55 pm
(This post was last modified: June 7, 2024 at 1:57 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Practically? Yeah. I don't run through complicated moral arguments in my head when I find a lost wallet. Dilemma is time sensitive and decency has a best-by date. Epistemologically? The same basis as or when I take any other seeming-thing to be true. Moral facts in metaethical objectivity are non-novel. To a metaethical objectivist, the statement "x is good" is just like the statement "nyx is a black cat".
Let's suppose that I'm blind. A noncognitivist error theory of biological inadequacy. In this case it would be difficult for me to ascertain the true state of nyx's color value. Nevertheless, there is some true state - and, if we're being charitable, there are ways to figure out the color of a thing that do not rely on sight. Let's suppose that it's my personal and strongly held opinion that all cats are white. A subjectivist error theory of value expectation. It would be uncomfortable for me to find a black cat - but I would have to simply accept that things are not as I thought they were. Let's suppose that I live a dystopian hellhole with the woke mind virus, and calling a cat black is no longer acceptable. A relativist error theory of contemporary norms. We are to use the term "blue", instead. Thus, "nyx is black" is now politically incorrect, and the politically correct statement is "nyx is blue". The cats coat will not have changed color.
Let's suppose that I'm blind. A noncognitivist error theory of biological inadequacy. In this case it would be difficult for me to ascertain the true state of nyx's color value. Nevertheless, there is some true state - and, if we're being charitable, there are ways to figure out the color of a thing that do not rely on sight. Let's suppose that it's my personal and strongly held opinion that all cats are white. A subjectivist error theory of value expectation. It would be uncomfortable for me to find a black cat - but I would have to simply accept that things are not as I thought they were. Let's suppose that I live a dystopian hellhole with the woke mind virus, and calling a cat black is no longer acceptable. A relativist error theory of contemporary norms. We are to use the term "blue", instead. Thus, "nyx is black" is now politically incorrect, and the politically correct statement is "nyx is blue". The cats coat will not have changed color.
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