Is morality 1) a kind of preference with a somewhat different set of emotional flavors associated with it or 2) something which has a true-or-falseness beyond preference?
The trick Objective moralists play is to set truth against preference, when what you have are truths about preferences. Is it true, for you, that ice cream is yummy? For me, it is. That doesn't make it any less a preference.
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