RE: What IS good, and how do we determine it?
June 16, 2015 at 12:31 am
(This post was last modified: June 16, 2015 at 12:37 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Right, that's what it means, and that's what it is. You and I -alone- would demonstrate the truth of this statement.
Some things are moral or they aren't - to you-. This is the nature of ones personal opinions and in no way contradictory to the notion of subjective morality. You should not be surprised to find that others have different opinions...they are different people with a different framework and different experiences. If morality were an animal (like a dog, in your example) than perhaps this line of reasoning would yield a description closer to truth, but since it isn't...it won't. Or maybe it does, and morality is furry or not furry like dogs are furry or not furry? If you want morality to be some real thing, rather than a thought, you;ll need to find some morality that is a real thing, not a thought...and you'll need to explain why everytime we look at an example of morality it turns out to be a "not real thing" (I guess is the alternative?)...a thought. No one has ever plucked any morality out of the air, it doesn't grow on trees.
Some things are moral or they aren't - to you-. This is the nature of ones personal opinions and in no way contradictory to the notion of subjective morality. You should not be surprised to find that others have different opinions...they are different people with a different framework and different experiences. If morality were an animal (like a dog, in your example) than perhaps this line of reasoning would yield a description closer to truth, but since it isn't...it won't. Or maybe it does, and morality is furry or not furry like dogs are furry or not furry? If you want morality to be some real thing, rather than a thought, you;ll need to find some morality that is a real thing, not a thought...and you'll need to explain why everytime we look at an example of morality it turns out to be a "not real thing" (I guess is the alternative?)...a thought. No one has ever plucked any morality out of the air, it doesn't grow on trees.
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