Peterdjones comments on What is Metaethics? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Peterdjones 27 April 2011 09:34:36PM 1 point [-]

The fact that something is done by a subject doesn't necessarily make it subjective. It takes a subject to add 2 and 2, but the answer is objective.

There are many ideas as to what "objectively right" could mean. Two of Kant's famous suggestions are "act only on that maxim you would wish to be universal law" and "treat people always as ends and never as means".