Well, if they were moral nihilists like me and had attained control of, say, the global economy…?
Yes, just as moral objectivists come in different flavors so to do moral nihilists.
On the other hand, if you were to come closer to my own frame of mind instead what do you have to lose? A whole lot, right?
Then why would I come closer to your frame of mind?
The answer can’t be “because it’s the real truth”.
Look, just as you can only react to my posts here by extrapolating from the experiences you have had with other moral nihilists in the past, I can only react to your posts by extrapolating from the experiences I have had with other moral objectivists in the past.
And, in that regard, you are more or less par for the course.
And you don’t react to my point of view based on how it would make you feel about yourself so much as the extent to which my frame of mind makes sense given the arguments I raise in my signature threads.
And, over and again, I can only point out that my own arguments in regard to “I” in the is/ought world are no less existential contraptions rooted in dasein.
So, is that the real truth? How would “I” know? I’m not even able to convince myself that “I” am in possession of free will, let alone that what “I” argue here is even remotely close to how it all fits into an understanding of existence itself.
Instead, it is when I suggest my frame of mind here may be applicable to you as well that, in my opinion, I get you in “retort” mode.
But the only way it makes sense to explore this is by focusing in on my own value judgments as an existential construct derived from the experiences in my life coupled with my attempt to understand those experiences through, among others things, the study of philosophy.
You believe that it’s the only way. But you’re and fragmented so how can you trust that belief?
Like you, I am only able to make a distinction between what I believe is true in my head here and now about my value judgments and what I am able to demonstrate to others that, if they wish to be construed as rational human beings, they are obligated to believe the same.
But I can’t demonstrate my own vantage point about morality because it is that vantage point itself that fractured and fragmented “me”. I can only come into places like this and peruse the vantage points of others.
And if you believe that…
…the only way it makes sense to explore this is by focusing in on my own value judgments as an existential construct derived from the experiences in my life coupled with my attempt to understand those experiences through, among others things, the study of philosophy.
…is not “the way to proceed”, come up with another way. But I can’t imagine an effective way that does not include these two components.