RE: Objective morality as a proper basic belief
June 26, 2017 at 1:26 pm
(This post was last modified: June 26, 2017 at 1:28 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(June 26, 2017 at 1:20 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: [quote='Khemikal' pid='1575165' dateline='1498497335']Why not, can't there be competing facts?
No they wouldn't.
Quote:If morality was objective it would be completely uniform.Why?
Quote:It isn't hence subjective.How would that follow...even if any of the above were true? How would that follow, even if knew that morality wasn't and couldn't be objective - if we could rule that out with authority? It's not like it just tumbles into the subjective bin by default. Perhaps it;s arbitrary? Perhaps it's absurd?
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