RE: Ben Shapiro vs Neil deGrasse Tyson: The WAR Over Transgender Issues
January 27, 2025 at 6:01 pm
(January 26, 2025 at 4:37 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(January 26, 2025 at 2:14 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Not really. If you and I both observe that there are two frogs on a log and there -are- two frogs on a log the assertion that there are two frogs on a log is not subjective or intersubjective and the next guy who comes along and says there may be three will not make it so. He'll just be wrong in fact.
Sure, but you and I can count frogs. How do you count morals? First we need to agree on what is or isn't moral. If we share the same definition, we can agree an act is moral or immoral. But that definition is not something we can point to in nature and say, "That, my friend, is a frog."
But isn't counting also subjective? You might want to count frogs by counting object A as 1 frog and frog B as 2 frogs.
You might say that object 1 is 1 frog because it has 4 legs.
Object 2 is 2 frogs because it has a pencil that is glued to a styrofoam cup.
Object 3 is 1.35 frogs because it is a painting of object 1 using watercolors.
As you can see, an agreement must be achieved.
Did I show that definitions are subjective?