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-3 Post author: OrphanWilde 11 July 2012 10:26PM

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Comment author: jimrandomh 11 July 2012 11:16:17PM 3 points [-]

Note that I treat morality as objective, which means, loosely speaking, that two people who share the same ethical values should arrive, provided neither makes logical errors, at approximately the same ethical system.

This is a tautology. When people say that morality is not objective, they mean that people tend to have different underlying values, and that there is no good way to reconcile tem.

Comment author: MileyCyrus 11 July 2012 11:33:54PM 2 points [-]

When people say that morality is not objective, they mean that people tend to have different underlying values, and that there is no good way to reconcile term.

Objectivity is not about everyone sharing values. If everyone hates the Yankees, "Boo Yankees!" is still not an objective statement.

Comment author: OrphanWilde 12 July 2012 01:04:24PM 1 point [-]

Objectivity is not universality.