If your ethics conflicted with Morality, how on earth would you tell?
Some folks have used the idea of “moral observations” to address this. Basically, if you see your neighbor’s child light a dog on fire, and you say “I saw your child doing something wrong”, you’re making a coherent statement about your observation of reality. Our moral observations can be distorted / hallucinated just like other observations, but then that is only as much of a barrier to understanding moral reality as it is to understanding physical reality.
Oh, obviously. I was saying that it would be hard to observe morality except in the usual way; it has since been pointed out that most forms of moral realism come with such a method; praying, for example.
Some folks have used the idea of “moral observations” to address this. Basically, if you see your neighbor’s child light a dog on fire, and you say “I saw your child doing something wrong”, you’re making a coherent statement about your observation of reality. Our moral observations can be distorted / hallucinated just like other observations, but then that is only as much of a barrier to understanding moral reality as it is to understanding physical reality.
Oh, obviously. I was saying that it would be hard to observe morality except in the usual way; it has since been pointed out that most forms of moral realism come with such a method; praying, for example.