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I have yet to read a single convincing argument for moral realism (pt2)

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i want a serious argument. i just want someone to explain how "muder is wrong" or some other given moral "fact" is as true as 2+2=4 or an electron having a negative charge. i'm not denying moral claims are useful and important for society to function because of human social values.
 
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i wouldnt wanna die
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There is no argument against this, it's simply true

Maybe you could be against people using metaphysical or epistemological arguments from philosophy to reduce the 'importance' of real world issues

But the claim itself is sound
 
There is no argument against this, it's simply true

Maybe you could be against people using metaphysical or epistemological arguments from philosophy to reduce the 'importance' of real world issues

But the claim itself is sound
well i don't need people that agree with me here bud
 
Btw this debate is retarded because truth is amorphous

The best case scenario is someone can somehow prove you wrong but can't prove their point

It's like debating if there's a god or not, you can't.

This is what I was trying to say last time but it was late so I couldn't
 
i want a serious argument. i just want someone to explain how "muder is wrong" or some other given moral "fact" is as true as 2+2=4 or an electron having a negative charge. i'm not denying moral claims are useful and important for society to function because of human social values.

i cant think of anything either
 
i cant think of anything either
i thought india was the most religious, most philosophically rich country in the world how dare you fail your ancestors
 
my balls smell objectively bad after leg day
 
Btw this debate is retarded because truth is amorphous

The best case scenario is someone can somehow prove you wrong but can't prove their point

It's like debating if there's a god or not, you can't.

This is what I was trying to say last time but it was late so I couldn't
Why the fuck are you all 🤔 are you retarded?
 
some moral truths exist independently of human opinion, the wrongness of murdering an innocent person is a strong example because it is not simply a matter of preference or culture. Murder unjustifiably violates a person's right to life, permanently deprives them of their future, and disregards their inherent moral worth. Even if an individual or society believed such an act was acceptable, that belief would not make it morally right. This suggests that the claim "murder is wrong" is objectively true, supporting the view that at least some moral facts exist independently of what people think.
 
i thought india was the most religious, most philosophically rich country in the world how dare you fail your ancestors
well i think if you ask for hinduisms view in it, you would say murder is bad because it feeds negative emotions

also like all beings have the same underlying self, idk its not really a soul just what you are

so harming someone it just being ignorant
and youre supposed to follow dharma like basically your duty in life
which is to uphold things probably society i think
like your responsibilities within society
and murdering someone disturbs society and your dharma as a whole

idk i have read the main hindu texts but i dont consider myself hindu

but anyway the argument it possibly provides idk if it can refute yours
 
some moral truths exist independently of human opinion, the wrongness of murdering an innocent person is a strong example because it is not simply a matter of preference or culture. Murder unjustifiably violates a person's right to life, permanently deprives them of their future, and disregards their inherent moral worth. Even if an individual or society believed such an act was acceptable, that belief would not make it morally right. This suggests that the claim "murder is wrong" is objectively true, supporting the view that at least some moral facts exist independently of what people think.
these are reasons within a moral framework for why murder is wrong. but you need to show why those things(rights, future, moral worth) are intrinsically more than just deeply held human values that exists in many peoples minds. i can fully agree that: murder causes immense harm, destroys future, and virtually everyone condemns it, and that societies that permit it tend to do worse. but none of that says its some fact independent of human minds.
 
these are reasons within a moral framework for why murder is wrong. but you need to show why those things(rights, future, moral worth) are intrinsically more than just deeply held human values that exists in many peoples minds. i can fully agree that: murder causes immense harm, destroys future, and virtually everyone condemns it, and that societies that permit it tend to do worse. but none of that says its some fact independent of human minds.
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these are reasons within a moral framework for why murder is wrong. but you need to show why those things(rights, future, moral worth) are intrinsically more than just deeply held human values that exists in many peoples minds. i can fully agree that: murder causes immense harm, destroys future, and virtually everyone condemns it, and that societies that permit it tend to do worse. but none of that says its some fact independent of human minds.
Would the percievable existence of morality in nature be a fair refutal?
 
Would the percievable existence of morality in nature be a fair refutal?
nature doesn't exist its just a way of implementing the thought of mind which is authentically wrong by itself
 
remember how you dickslapped RAD and that hungarian guy inanimate pragmatist in arguments? i thought you were stronger
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Like I said it's not a debate to be won its more like a discussion because I don't believe there's an actual way to come to a conclusion unlike those topics.

Answer anyway
 
i want a serious argument. i just want someone to explain how "muder is wrong" or some other given moral "fact" is as true as 2+2=4 or an electron having a negative charge. i'm not denying moral claims are useful and important for society to function because of human social values.
the fact that moral truths are not measurabel in the same way as physical facts does not necessarily mean they are unreal. after all, many things we regard as objective such as logci mathematic or rational consistency are not physical objects either a moral realist could argue that "murder is wrong" is not merely a preference but a truth discoverable through reason because the unjustified destruction of conscious beings directly contradicts the conditions required for human flourishing and moral agency while moral disagreement certainly exists disagreement alone does not disprove objectivitypeople disagree about science history, and mathematics as well yet few would conclude that there are no objective facts in those domains if anything the nearuniversal condemnation of murder across cultures may suggest that human beings are recognizing a genuine moral reality rather than simply expressing arbitrary preferences :)

hope this helps
 
Like I said it's not a debate to be won its more like a discussion because I don't believe there's an actual way to come to a conclusion unlike those topics.

Answer anyway
bossy

are you asking if animals showing empathy or punishment of cheaters (like in chimps or capuchins) is evidence of morality being objective? or something else

because i think the perceivable existence of morality in nature is more obviously a byproduct from evolution and reproductive fitness than being something objective
 
because i think the perceivable existence of morality in nature is more obviously a byproduct from evolution and reproductive fitness than being something obobjective
Sure, but wouldn't you agree that the more a species evolves the more intelligent and better suited to survival they become? Wouldn't this making their displays of morality more legitimate?
 
bossy

are you asking if animals showing empathy or punishment of cheaters (like in chimps or capuchins) is evidence of morality being objective? or something else

because i think the perceivable existence of morality in nature is more obviously a byproduct from evolution and reproductive fitness than being something objective
that's basically my point lmao if morality appears in other social species that seems more consistent with it being an evulutionary adaptation than an objective feature of reality

for example capuchin monkeys have been observed reacting negatively to unfair treatment but that doesn't necessarilly show the existence of objective moral facts it could simply reflect behaviors that promote cooperation and group survival

(hoping my grammar isn’t too bad I’m not native)
 
the fact that moral truths are not measurabel in the same way as physical facts does not necessarily mean they are unreal. after all, many things we regard as objective such as logci mathematic or rational consistency are not physical objects either a moral realist could argue that "murder is wrong" is not merely a preference but a truth discoverable through reason because the unjustified destruction of conscious beings directly contradicts the conditions required for human flourishing and moral agency while moral disagreement certainly exists disagreement alone does not disprove objectivitypeople disagree about science history, and mathematics as well yet few would conclude that there are no objective facts in those domains if anything the nearuniversal condemnation of murder across cultures may suggest that human beings are recognizing a genuine moral reality rather than simply expressing arbitrary preferences :)

hope this helps
mathematical and logical truths are necessarily true. 2+2 equals 4 in any possible world and denying it makes a contradiction. "murder is wrong" isn't like that. you can coherently imagine a universe where conscious beings exist and murder carries no wrongness. it could just be a fact about what happens like a rock falling. there is no contradiction in a universe with suffering but no wrongness.

and why is flourishing objectively good? when you appeal to whats good for conscious beings you're assuming the interest of conscious beings matter.

again, i'm not denying moral claims are useful and important for society to function because of human social values. human social values also aren't reflective of some objective fact of the universe.
 
Sure, but wouldn't you agree that the more a species evolves the more intelligent and better suited to survival they become? Wouldn't this making their displays of morality more legitimate?
what do you mean legitimate? evolution just makes organisms better suited for their environments.

a more intelligent being could be better at reasoning about what "promotes flourishing" or minimizes suffering. that's reasoning better within a value system which doesn't mean discovering that the value system is cosmically correct. also, some organisms like parasites are destructive to other organisms but they aren't in a strict sense less evolved than a human. i don't see how human morality isn't just a byproduct of how humans in particular evolved and what works best for society to be stable
 
mathematical and logical truths are necessarily true. 2+2 equals 4 in any possible world and denying it makes a contradiction. "murder is wrong" isn't like that. you can coherently imagine a universe where conscious beings exist and murder carries no wrongness. it could just be a fact about what happens like a rock falling. there is no contradiction in a universe with suffering but no wrongness.

and why is flourishing objectively good? when you appeal to whats good for conscious beings you're assuming the interest of conscious beings matter.

again, i'm not denying moral claims are useful and important for society to function because of human social values. human social values also aren't reflective of some objective fact of the universe.
the ability to imagine a world without moral facts doesn't prove moral facts don't exist people can imagine worlds where logic or causality work differently too and flourishing isn't just an arbitrary preference

it's grounded in the interests and experiences of conscious being's if suffering and well-being are real features of conscious life then morality may be describing something objective about how conscious beings ought to be treated
 
what do you mean legitimate?
Who's opinion would you value more about what to do with your education, a genius or a guy with down syndrome? Intelligent beings all showing similair values shows that likely those values are correct. While yes you could also argue that it just means the values are beneficial, there's no way to prove that necessarily. Humans do not act morally for the most part, we are still incredibly self destructive, but we remain aware of moral systems nevertheless.
 
the ability to imagine a world without moral facts doesn't prove moral facts don't exist people can imagine worlds where logic or causality work differently too and flourishing isn't just an arbitrary preference

it's grounded in the interests and experiences of conscious being's if suffering and well-being are real features of conscious life then morality may be describing something objective about how conscious beings ought to be treated
but the analogy with logic still stands. logical contradictions are impossible by definition. a world where suffering exists and yet nothing is objectively wrong isn't contradictory. moral facts aren't necessary truths like 2+2=4 or the speed of light.

"suffering is real" is a different claim than "suffering is bad." the word ought is doing a lot of work here. moral realism needs an account of why "is" generates "ought".
 
a lot of proving "humans suffer and work to avoid it" and not a lot of "this is why human morals describe facts of the universe"
 
i want a serious argument. i just want someone to explain how "muder is wrong" or some other given moral "fact" is as true as 2+2=4 or an electron having a negative charge. i'm not denying moral claims are useful and important for society to function because of human social values.
peoples views r based on other’s subjective morality so they csn fit in
 

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