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> right and wrong (well outside real moral issues)

Even moral issues don't have objective right and wrong. The idea that there are base moral facts is ridiculous, and without fully understanding each others priors arguments about ethics are rarely productive.



> The idea that there are base moral facts is ridiculous

Sexual abuse of toddlers?

Unprovoked abduction and torture?

I think there certainly are base moral facts at the extremes of behaviour. Evil exists. Malevolence exists.

But I agree that most behaviour isn’t so extreme as to be easily judged without the understanding you describe.


Oh yeah moral issues are within a context and so on.




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