Comment on What is Metaethics?

Mon, 02 May 2011 00:52:01 GMT

it makes sense to judge my own actions as good or bad, right or wrong. I can change them.

Yes, but if you judge a particular action of your own to be 'wrong', then why should you avoid that action? The definition of wrong that I supply solves that problem. By definition if an action is wrong, then it is likely to elicit punishment. So you have a practical reason for doing right rather than doing wrong.

Furthermore, if you do your duty and reward and/or punish other people for their behavior, then they too will have a practical reason to do right rather than wrong.

Before you object "But that is not morality!", ask yourself how you learned the difference between right and wrong.

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