When one speaks, in some sense one always argues. So when you say that “saving that child was right”, you appeal to particular moral intuitions, i.e. heuristics, allowing other people to notice these intuitions and agree with you, not making a meta-ethical claim about this action being in accordance with the essence of “right”.
When one speaks, in some sense one always argues. So when you say that “saving that child was right”, you appeal to particular moral intuitions, i.e. heuristics, allowing other people to notice these intuitions and agree with you, not making a meta-ethical claim about this action being in accordance with the essence of “right”.
Sometimes when one speaks one speaks for oneself!