(June 9, 2024 at 2:46 am)Foxaèr Wrote: We tend to focus on the wrong phrasing of a question. We shouldn't concern ourselves with "why should we care", when rather "why shouldn't we care" allows more for the moral awakening within the mind.
For me the answer to why shouldn’t I care when addressed to claimed moral properties is that I don’t believe they exist. It would be like saying “why shouldn’t I care about a god’s commands”, well I don’t believe the god exists for there to be commands. Similarly I don’t believe moral properties exists to have some sort of motivating or binding effect
I do care on a personal level about not harming people; about having a stable society; about fostering good interpersonal relationships, but I don’t do that because I think there has to be some objective standard telling me to. There is an awful lot in life that we do without having an objective standard to guide it (I think), and I think “moral actions” can do without moral properties perfectly well. Usual caveat, I am new to thinking through all this and have been known to be an idiot and laughably wrong about things in the past.
