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I’m having a hard time telling the difference between your moral nihilist and a moral relativist

• Barrin92 5y ago
  The moral relativist believes that moral statements have meaning and truth value, but that the meaning is subjective and dependent on context, the individual, the time period or geography, and so forth. The moral nihilist thinks that the notion of truth or falsehood in regards to moral statements doesn't make sense. Moral assertions make only sense if objects have moral properties, and we have no reason to believe that moral properties exist, of what nature they are, how someone were to measure what is morally good or bad, that they're not even necessary to explain the world as it is, or similar arguments along those lines. The moral nihilist thinks that a statement like "torture is wrong" is like saying "the king of france is bald". There is currently no king of France, the statement is neither really true or false, it simply does not refer to anything in the world.