From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Fri Nov 22 2002 - 21:52:15 MST
gts writes
> To say that, in your opinion, people "ought not" be enslaved is to make
> a moral judgment that slavery is wrong and freedom is right.
I can see how you might at first think that it is the
same thing. For one thing, you may be tempted to define
it as such. Such a course is misguided, as the following
shows:
> This is all there is to rights. There is nothing mystical about their
> existence. We can agree to the existence of moral truths in the same way
> that we can agree to the existence of mathematical truths, and with the
> same kind of realist interpretations.
Oh. Okay. Majority rule determines truth, eh? Next,
you will find some things to be objectively beautiful,
because, after all, you will proceed exactly as you
do with your so-called "moral truths"---just get the
right people to agree!
Bah. Are you ever bad at philosophy.
Lee
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