Meaning of Right and Wrong... Finally Answered!

[theVOID]

Desirism is...

If you desire to be moral you should act like a moral person.

Whilst I agree with everything that desirism proscribes, I don't see how it provides a motivation for moral behaviour. Obviously, if I rape someone, I will receive condemnation, and punishment. But I have no incentive to give to charity, unless someone condemns me for not doing so. It doesn't deal with the is-ought gap. To put it another way, why should I care about fulfilling others' desires, provided that not doing so doesn't result in condemnation or the thwarting of my own desires?

I wrote a really long reply and then lost it

I cbf doing all that again right now, you can wait until i'm not bummed out about it and feel like starting again or read this:

http://atheistethicist.blogspot.com/2010...tions.html