(December 9, 2017 at 12:10 am)Grandizer Wrote: That we have the ability to come up with a system to determine and assess the moral rightness and wrongness of acts means that it is possible for morality to be objective...A person can come up with a system to determine and assess which flavor of ice cream tastes the best. Which girl is the prettiest. What joke is the funniest. How to assess moral rightness and wrongness.
A second person can come up with a different system to determine and assess which flavor of ice cream tastes best. Which girl is the prettiest. What joke is the funniest, and how to assess moral rightness and wrongness.
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If you want one system to be objectively true, what you need is ANOTHER system that compares the two systems and says which system is better.
Uh oh, someone else has a system that also compares the two systems and says which one is better in a different way.
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So now we need a system to compare systems that compares systems to see which of those is better.
God damn it! Wouldn't you know it, someone else also made a system to compare systems that compares systems.
and so on forever and ever and ever and ever.