11-06-2022, 02:56 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-06-2022, 03:00 PM by Rhythmcs.)
Is Morality Objective?
Is Morality Objective?
(10-30-2022, 10:19 PM)TinyDave Wrote:The point of the question is to offer people an opportunity to make objective assertions, if any can be made.(10-23-2022, 09:29 PM)Rhythmcs Wrote: A legal fiction, ofc. There's nothing an adult can do with an ak, for example, that a child couldn't. No offense an adult can commit that a minor cannot (and so, sometimes, we try minors as adults).
There is an actus reus and a mens rea.
Guilty action and a guilty mind.
This is a nonsense, you are a poe.
In this case, ideas about a lack of intent rather than a lack of ability, and it's relationship to our mental development over time. This is an objective assertion about the nature of a moral agent which is then modifying in an objective calculation of desert. I could add asserted or alleged before every use of the term until the end of time but it's unweildy. I also think this is the case. If it -is-, though, or even if we so much as truly believe it is...then it does become a bit odd to see us reject moral objectivity while we assert morally objective terms, and with some insistence, no less. I chalk it up to the term having been poisoned, rather than this rejection being a genuine reflection of our general beliefs on the matter.