If you want your question answered it obviously matters.
If you never actually cared about the answer, have a nice day.
Um, I can’t answer that question for you…
Do you believe there is a source of morality above the hierarchy of the individual. The society, for instance.
Since when?
Then you asked a question that cannot be answered, because you couldn’t define your question.
Here.
Can the individual have the wrong moral position?
Can society have the wrong moral position?
You can say yes or no to both.
Define society.
Define wrong. Wrong from the individual’s point of view or wrong from an outside view?
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If you actually define your question, it can be answered.
Is 2+2=5 wrong? What if I said I’m asking within the context of a society that uses a 5 for a 4 and vice versa?
Exactly. Wrong has to be relative to something.
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Would 5 mean 4 just under a different sound and symbol, or would 5 actually be 1,2,3,4,5?
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Yes. In this scenario, this society is absolutely mirrored to our own, except they chose the symbol 5 for a value of 4 (2+2).
You used an objective reality outside of ourselves we can demonstrate as true or false once we define our terms. A singular apple falls to the ground. We call that one. Another one falls to the ground and we call that 2. So forth and so on. We can then demonstrate that reality and over.
Is this like morality then, an independent reality?
Pfury, that doesn’t work.
Who is wrong the slaver society or the abolitionist?
I’ll be honest. I’m flabbergasted that you understand this, yet at the same time don’t understand why you need to define your question.
Isn’t the abolitionist part of that society?
I am perplexed you won’t answer the question and explain your own basis for answering as you do.
I am yet to be provided with a question that can be answered
And that’s fine, if you maintain that position.
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Then the logic still stands. It doesn’t matter the symbol. ii+ii= iv. We can rough up our whole language as long as things mean the same thing to different people it’s irrelevant.
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I’d say it’s because your just playing a shell game. Changing the words and not the meanings doesn’t do anything to bolster the argument. What if dog meant cat?