Moral Acts

[The Grand Nudger]

Another way of putting it: explain to a being in another reality, who doesn't care about anything in our reality, why one of us raping another is "wrong".

It harms them, and tolerating it harms us all.  

You have to care in the first place, before "wrong" takes any meaning.

You don't have to give a shit to know that rape harms a person, for it;s wrongness to have meaning.  Rapists know that, they don't give a shit, but they know it harms the person.  

Edit: I have no idea what you're talking about, I'm going to have to think on it

What is a moral fact? I'm saying this is a contradiction in terms.

I'm not sure how it could be a contradiction in terms.  There's nothing contradictory about morality and facts.  A moral fact of the matter.  An objective moral statement.  Example (the easy example -because- it's easy) : rape is wrong, it's not wrong just because I think it's wrong, i didn't make it wrong, I couldn't make it right if I wanted to, it's wrong independent of anyone's personal opinion, and it's always wrong.

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You're already assuming it's about wellbeing,

I wouldn't call that an assumption, or claim ownership for it personally.  It seems to be the subject matter of morality regardless of how people arrange the contents of heir morality.

 and then assuming there's a 'correct' way to assess effects on it. 

Do you not think that there might be an objective measurement of human wellbeing?  When we measure poverty, for example..and determine that it has a negative effect on human wellbeing, is that an objective or subjective measurement of it's effect?  

You're saying there's a metric out there which is the "right" one. But right according to... who? The universe?

Like I said, it seems to be the subject to which morality refers.  The universe, who gives a fuck about the universe, we're talking human morality.