RE: Veganism
March 23, 2026 at 8:12 pm
(This post was last modified: March 23, 2026 at 8:16 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(March 23, 2026 at 8:05 pm)Paleophyte Wrote:(March 23, 2026 at 7:48 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: People disagree about facts all the time, but I still think those are good examples.
How many people will kill you for 1+1=2? Now, how many will kill you for the 'moral facts' that their chosen deity handed down? One of those is a hard fact that few of us disagree with. The other is a 'moral' stance that has been held by a depressingly large segment of our population, even today.
The things handed down by a deity may be "moral"...but they are not what moral realism is talking about, so they aren't really a problem that moral realism has to answer for. They're explicitly subjective. Handed down by a deity....I don't really care about those sorts of morals and I wouldn't kill anyone for them...but there's probably some number of people I'd harm to prevent their application in our lives. If the reason we shouldn't eat beef was because the cowgod said so, and the cowgod police were going around smacking food out of hungry peoples mouths on account of that...they'd definitely be fair game, imo.
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