orthonormal comments on Another Argument Against Eliezer's Meta-Ethics - Less Wrong Discussion
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Do we really often mean to refer to those heuristics by "right"? Can you give me a couple of examples of when we clearly intend to do that?
When one speaks, in some sense one always argues. So when you say that "saving that child was right", you appeal to particular moral intuitions, i.e. heuristics, allowing other people to notice these intuitions and agree with you, not making a meta-ethical claim about this action being in accordance with the essence of "right".
Sometimes when one speaks one speaks for oneself!