I have never been anything other than frank here: I am an ironist. I am dasein. As, in my opinion, are you. There is being these things and knowing it or being these things and not knowing it.
What we mean to say is always a reflection of what we think we know about ourselves and others out in a particular world. But this is often very much at odds with what others think they know. And surely at odds with all that can be known. There is always an ironic gap here with respect to both identity and value judgments.
But not regarding other things like mathematics and the laws of physics. Or so it seems to me. The gaps here live and breathe irony because we assert particular things emphatically that we cannot possibly be certain about.
Why in the world would this lift your spirits though? It can truly devastate mine.
Ultimately I don’t know why you’re here, participating in philosophy discussions—given what you believe. Yea yea, sure, you’ll go on about you’re waiting for an argument that makes you an objectivist. But I already gave you one, and you agreed with it—you asked some questions, and I made sure you understood it. You did. Morality is objective in the same way science is. And so presumably now you’re just dissatisfied for some reason that has nothing to do with the argument itself.
This is so over the top, it seems almost to writhe with irony. Are you being serious when you say things like this? Do you actually mean it? I don’t know. I can speculate that perhaps you do and then I feel compelled to explore what I construe to be the potential for danger in thinking like this: if morality is objective we should all live our lives accordingly.
Or be made to?
You repeat yourself so much it’s astounding. And then you rightly accuse others of ignoring it—because no one should have to respond to the same thing more than once.
The important things are worth repeating. And only those who sense this about the points I raise keep reading them. But a new way of thinking about ourselves and the world around us can take a long time to finally sink in.