RE: Ben Shapiro vs Neil deGrasse Tyson: The WAR Over Transgender Issues
January 28, 2025 at 7:49 pm
(This post was last modified: January 28, 2025 at 7:54 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Toes and murder is still on the table.
Because I care is metaethically ambiguous, depending on what we mean there that's not at all clear from the written word but that would be in life or conversation. When we say things (and mean them) like.."I just follow my heart". In this case morality (or this moral explanation) isn't subjectivist, it's not even cognitivist. An objectivist notes that a pitch black heart also follows itself. To an objectivist, a things rightness and wrongness, a moral statements truth or falsity, isn't determined by or interchangeable with our emotional responses, attitudes, or predispositions. Sometimes they line up, sometimes they don't..and here again, like before, even as we see them.
So we have daylight again. In this case daylight between subjectivism and emotivism, but also between subjectivism and emotivism and our moral assertions or principles. There is additional content not described by explicitly or exclusively emotivist or subjectivist moral groundings individually or together. Our hearts and our care can be misplaced, mistaken, misused, misbegotten, and simply absent. Whether or not I care, in either sense, is not the truthmaking property in all moral statements, objectively or empirically speaking.
Just some bit of trivia about how much of an asshole I am, relatively speaking.
Because I care is metaethically ambiguous, depending on what we mean there that's not at all clear from the written word but that would be in life or conversation. When we say things (and mean them) like.."I just follow my heart". In this case morality (or this moral explanation) isn't subjectivist, it's not even cognitivist. An objectivist notes that a pitch black heart also follows itself. To an objectivist, a things rightness and wrongness, a moral statements truth or falsity, isn't determined by or interchangeable with our emotional responses, attitudes, or predispositions. Sometimes they line up, sometimes they don't..and here again, like before, even as we see them.
So we have daylight again. In this case daylight between subjectivism and emotivism, but also between subjectivism and emotivism and our moral assertions or principles. There is additional content not described by explicitly or exclusively emotivist or subjectivist moral groundings individually or together. Our hearts and our care can be misplaced, mistaken, misused, misbegotten, and simply absent. Whether or not I care, in either sense, is not the truthmaking property in all moral statements, objectively or empirically speaking.
Just some bit of trivia about how much of an asshole I am, relatively speaking.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
