I did not mean to imply that ideal moral reasoning is weird and unguessable....only that you should not take imperfect moral reasoning (whose?) to be the last word. The idea that deliberately causing pain is wrong is not contentious, and you don’t actually have an argument against it.
It’s only subjective in the sense that mine is different from yours
That’s not a very interesting sense. Is height also subjective, since we are not equally tall? This sense is also very far from the magical “subjective experience” you’ve used. I guess the problematic word in that phrase is “experience”, not “subjective”?
Height is not a subjective judgement because it is not a judgement. If judgements are going to vary, that matters, because then who knows what the truth is?
I did not mean to imply that ideal moral reasoning is weird and unguessable....only that you should not take imperfect moral reasoning (whose?) to be the last word. The idea that deliberately causing pain is wrong is not contentious, and you don’t actually have an argument against it.
That’s the sense that matters.
That’s not a very interesting sense. Is height also subjective, since we are not equally tall? This sense is also very far from the magical “subjective experience” you’ve used. I guess the problematic word in that phrase is “experience”, not “subjective”?
Height is not a subjective judgement because it is not a judgement. If judgements are going to vary, that matters, because then who knows what the truth is?