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Humans aren't just not perfect Bayesians. Very very few of us are even Bayesian wannabes. In essence, everyone who thinks that it is more moral/ethical to hold some proposition than to hold it's converse is taking some criterion other than appearent truth as normative with respect to the evaluation of beliefs.
This seems like a shorthand for denying the existence of morals and ethics. I don't think that's what you mean, but I've heard that exact argument used to support nihilism.
If I say "torture is unethical", I might mean "I believe that torture, for its own sake and without a greater positive offset, is unethical", which is objectively true (please, I entreat you to examine my source code). But it would be just as objectively true to say the negation if I actually believed the negation. Is it neither moral nor immoral to hold the belief that torture is a bad thing?