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It seems you grossly misunderstand ethics by portraying it as some kind of arbitrary system (or "framework" per your word choice, a word I've come to despise) i
by bobthechef 8y ago
It seems you grossly misunderstand ethics by portraying it as some kind of arbitrary system (or "framework" per your word choice, a word I've come to despise) imposed on people, or some kind of code voluntarily adopted but ultimately without ground. People may disagree about what is good, or what the correct moral principles are, but that does not mean there isn't a proper object of study and that that object is objective and universal. Cultures can be wrong. People can be wrong. People can be ignorant. Their moral intuitions and their ethical judgments can be deformed and at odds with the truth.
In any case, moral skepticism and moral relativism are not only worthless, but incoherent and untenable and nothing anyone of any philosophical sophistication holds to. It is the quintessential freshman philosophy student's position, a position born out of ignorance and teenage rebelliousness rather than the careful exercise of reason.
- AndrewKemendo 8y agoPray tell, what "objective and universal" object are you referring to?