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It seems to me that right and wrong being objective, just like truth and falsehood, is what you've been trying to prove all this time. To equate "right and wrong" with "true and false" by assumption would be to, well you know, beg the question. It's not surprising that it always comes back to circularity, because a circular argument is the same in effect as an unjustified assertion, and in fact that's become the theme of not just our exchange here, but this entire thread: "objective ethics are true by assertion."
I think we agreed elsewhere that ethical sentiments are at least quasi-universal; is there something else we needed to agree on? Because the rest just looks like wordplay to me.
I'm not equating moral right and wrong with true and false. I was disambiguating some ambiguous words that you employed. The word "right" is ambiguous, because in one context it can mean "morally righteous", and in another context it can mean "true". I disambiguated the words in a certain direction because of the immediate textual context. Apparently that was not what you meant. Okay - so ideally I should go back and disambiguate the words in the opposite direction. However, I can tell you right now it will come to the same result. I don't really want to belabor this point so unless you insist, I'm not actually going to write yet another comment in which I disambiguate your terms "right" and 'wrong" in the moral direction.