(July 7, 2024 at 10:45 am)Angrboda Wrote:(July 7, 2024 at 10:33 am)Lucian Wrote: Out of interest, is the question of why an anti-realist would act morally just one of curiosity, or does it lean towards evidence against anti-realism for you?
Mere curiosity. I'm wondering how you answer the objection. Given the average person seems, in practice, to be constrained by a conscience, I think that's a significant difference.
Understood. My Christian friend sees possible bad outcomes of a belief as evidence that the belief itself must be wrong. Completely bonkers approach to my mind and ignores the bad consequences of Christian belief also
I am not a moral abolitionist, believing we should do away with moral talk and thought. I am a very confused moral conservationist and possibly fictionalist but as I said - confused!
The reason I don’t want to do away with moral talk and thought is that I think it can do some good, and a development of the conscience is one such good. That said, I don’t think a conscience needs an objective standard to develop, empathy is one such mechanism that could guide a conscience without.
