(April 13, 2014 at 11:10 pm)Esquilax Wrote:(April 13, 2014 at 11:07 pm)tor Wrote: Yeah but they thought it was good and that's why they did it. They thought it was justice.
And the idea of justice changed because opinions about justice changed.
But they are still opinions.
Yeah, it's called learning.
I never said people perfectly execute on any given objective moral standard, just that they are present in certain moral situations. Of course you're going to find situations in which mistakes are made, but we've since learned that they were mistakes, using argument and evidence, yes?
The action can be objectivaly best ACCORDING to a set of values.
If you want to win a game of chess there are best moves. If you want to lose worst moves become best instead.
The values are not objective. Which means actions are not objective either because they are governed by values.
If you are sick and you value being healthy going to a doctor is objectively good. But you are not objectively ought to be healthy. It's just what you prefer.
