Re:8chan goes dark after hardware provider discontinues service
by naasking on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @11:34AM
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> Unless you can build some sort of moral truth detector, "simply true or not true" is still a subjective proposition
See the Categorical Imperative, and also a Proof of the Objectivity of Morals: https://www.reddit.com/r/philosophy/comments/3etl9b/a_proof_...
There are very good reasons why most philosophers are moral realists.
Re:8chan goes dark after hardware provider discontinues service
by wpietri on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @05:55PM
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I'll take your word for it that most human philosophers are moral realists. Even if true, I think that says more about human brains and the social structures that bless people as professional philosophers than it does about any deep nature of reality.
I get that this doesn't have the thrilling clarity of some sort of moral fundamentalism. But that's my point. When two groups with different absolute moral beliefs conflict, our options are negotiation or murder. People like the El Paso killer clearly favor the latter. To me that's a sign that however much people hold absolute moral beliefs (and I hope it's relatively little), they should talk about it in utilitarian, relative terms.