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All policy arguments are political, but not necessarily emanating from a moral philosophy. To the extent morality can be reduced to cause-effect propositions, i

• dragonwriter 11y ago
  > All policy arguments are political, but not necessarily emanating from a moral philosophy. Insofar as they can be called arguments at all, they rest on moral -- or at least, "subjective value", which some would see "moral" as a subset of, with other subsets including "aesthetic" and probably some others; these distinctions are not well-defined and, ultimately, I don't think actually meaningful -- bases. > To the extent morality can be reduced to cause-effect propositions, it can also be subject to analysis To the extent something can be reduced to cause-effect proposition, it is a fact question, not a value question. Morality consists of the space of value questions. It may be necessary to answer a fact question to address a value question in a particular value framework, but ultimately a question that can be reduced to cause-effect propositions is not a moral question, but a fact question (which may also have utility in addressing a moral question.)