Lumping moral skepticism in “none of the above” seems very inappropriate to me. I know that technically, if the others cover all the moral realist bases (which I agree that it does), then “none of the above” is linguistically correct and has moral skepticism as its referent.
But it seems dismissive to call it “none of the above”. It feels to me like describing it that way has semantic content embedded in the phrasing of the question that I disagree with.
I would prefer “moral skepticism” as an option for the same reason I’d prefer “atheism” as an option under the religious question. Calling it “none of the above” might be formally accurate, but it nevertheless feels inappropriate to phrase it that way, as it makes the question itself feel biased.
if the others cover all the moral realist bases (which I agree that it does)
To tell the truth, the main reason why I wanted “None of the above” is that I wasn’t terribly sure that the four answers in the last survey are a strictly valid tetrachotomy.
Lumping moral skepticism in “none of the above” seems very inappropriate to me. I know that technically, if the others cover all the moral realist bases (which I agree that it does), then “none of the above” is linguistically correct and has moral skepticism as its referent.
But it seems dismissive to call it “none of the above”. It feels to me like describing it that way has semantic content embedded in the phrasing of the question that I disagree with.
I would prefer “moral skepticism” as an option for the same reason I’d prefer “atheism” as an option under the religious question. Calling it “none of the above” might be formally accurate, but it nevertheless feels inappropriate to phrase it that way, as it makes the question itself feel biased.
To tell the truth, the main reason why I wanted “None of the above” is that I wasn’t terribly sure that the four answers in the last survey are a strictly valid tetrachotomy.