Atheism and Ethics

[Lucian]

I don't know if we have the same thing in mind, but if you mean the view that epistemic fact statements can and do contain implicit or even explicit normative values and claims and "shoulds"..and so, are like moral fact statements in that way, then no.  I agree entirely.

Ah sorry, I might have misunderstood. You discussed whether you should care about the truth and then turned to metaethics. To me that would be more of an epistemological normative value that isn’t necessarily to do with morality. Re reading your post though I see that I failed to connect that properly to what followed it. So yeah, I bodged