So8res comments on Criticisms of the Metaethics - Less Wrong

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Comment author: So8res 01 November 2013 04:29:04PM *  0 points [-]

Other people on this website seem to think I'm not fighting a phantom

Feel free to take it up with them :-)

And how is it not metaethics?

Metaethics is about the status of moral claims. It's about where "should", "good", "right", "wrong" etc. come from, their validity, and so on. What a person should do in any given scenario (as in your questions above) is pure ethics.