Am I allowed to personally respond to a site that objectifies women and rates their value as objects (and values them at literally zero) in a way that shows that I do not agree?
First of all, let me say I didn’t downvote you. Or upvote you either.
Secondly, there’s some confusion of terminology here.
a) There’s “agreement” in the sense of shared beliefs about the state of the world. (Epistemological agreement - (“is” statements) b) There’s “agreement” in the sense of shared beliefs about how the world should be. (Moral agreement—“ought” statements) c) There’s “agreement” in the sense of shared preferences. (Agreement in taste—“like” statements)
(a)s have objective truth value. (c)s are subjective. (b)s have people always debate about their objectivity/subjectivity thereof.
Now the three types aren’t always clearly distinct. If someone makes a statement about “attractiveness” it’s both a (c) statement about preferences, but it may also be a statement about what real-life people like on average—in which case it can be an (a) statement about the distribution of preferences in a population, which has a truth value.
So, if someone calls someone else “sexually worthless”, and you say you don’t agree—do you mean that you simply have different preferences—are you making a (c) statement? That you believe his statement factually false—you’re making an (a) statement about the distribution of attraction feelings towards such women in the real world?
Or do you mean that you consider it MORALLY WRONG for him to speak and behave in such a rude way?
If the last of these, then “I morally object to such an attitude” is obviously a clearer way of talking about your objection rather than “I do not agree” which is vague and imprecise.
First of all, let me say I didn’t downvote you. Or upvote you either.
Secondly, there’s some confusion of terminology here.
a) There’s “agreement” in the sense of shared beliefs about the state of the world. (Epistemological agreement - (“is” statements)
b) There’s “agreement” in the sense of shared beliefs about how the world should be. (Moral agreement—“ought” statements)
c) There’s “agreement” in the sense of shared preferences. (Agreement in taste—“like” statements)
(a)s have objective truth value.
(c)s are subjective.
(b)s have people always debate about their objectivity/subjectivity thereof.
Now the three types aren’t always clearly distinct. If someone makes a statement about “attractiveness” it’s both a (c) statement about preferences, but it may also be a statement about what real-life people like on average—in which case it can be an (a) statement about the distribution of preferences in a population, which has a truth value.
So, if someone calls someone else “sexually worthless”, and you say you don’t agree—do you mean that you simply have different preferences—are you making a (c) statement? That you believe his statement factually false—you’re making an (a) statement about the distribution of attraction feelings towards such women in the real world?
Or do you mean that you consider it MORALLY WRONG for him to speak and behave in such a rude way?
If the last of these, then “I morally object to such an attitude” is obviously a clearer way of talking about your objection rather than “I do not agree” which is vague and imprecise.