RE: Moral Acts
January 13, 2017 at 2:23 am
(This post was last modified: January 13, 2017 at 2:24 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(January 13, 2017 at 2:17 am)robvalue Wrote: There are many objective ways of assessing wellbeing. I'm saying that it doesn't mean anything to say one of them is "right". What could that possibly mean? I literally have no idea.Well, if they're objective...and accurate, in what sense could they be wrong? Are we talking right and wrong like...accurate and inaccurate, in this regard? If there are many objective ways of measuring human wellbeing, then it should be blissfully simple to then make objective moral statements based upon them.
Quote:Let's say all our opinions are wrong, and we somehow discover through science that it's a moral fact that rape is "right".I'm not sure what our opinions have to do with this one. If we discovered that rape was not harmful, more than that, it helped people? That's the only way, in the context of an objective morality based on human wellbeing...that we could discover by any means (scientific or otherwise) that rape was morally right. Are we actually entertaining this idea?
Quote:What does that even mean, what does it matter, and would it affect anyone's actions? Would you adjust your opinion to line up with this "fact"?No, but I don't always adjust my behavior to the moral facts of the matter that I currently accept...that doesn't "unfact" them, it's just makes me human.
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