There is no ought. I see only arbitrary, unjustified opinion based on circumstances that are organic, deterministic, and possibly irrelevant. I have a lot of difficulty ‘getting into’ the elaborate constructions of moral philosophy that I see; it all feels like looking at the same thing from different angles. I don’t see how any ‘authority’ can exist to settle any matter on morality; What authority exists to declare something as unethical, or ethical, or how ethics themselves operate? Who has the authority to declare that others have authority, or have authority to grant authority, or to deny it? This opinion itself is as “unjustified” as anything else, and I don’t particularly esteem it above a morality based around saving toddlers or collecting stamps. I don’t want my nihilistic tendencies to come off as pessimism or rejection of the world; I don’t see any external criteria that my morality must meet, and I feel completely justified in whatever I believe ONLY in the sense that I don’t see any actual ‘permission’ or ‘denial’ existing that could affect my ideas. To grotesquely simplify, ladies and gentlemen, we are all piles of screaming meat, and I feel ANY significance to be ‘merely’ in my own head. Maybe I’m rambling about the obvious, and coming off as obnoxious in the process, I’m not sure, but in any case I’m certain that what I’ve just said is held by an extreme minority.
There is no ought. I see only arbitrary, unjustified opinion based on circumstances that are organic, deterministic, and possibly irrelevant. I have a lot of difficulty ‘getting into’ the elaborate constructions of moral philosophy that I see; it all feels like looking at the same thing from different angles. I don’t see how any ‘authority’ can exist to settle any matter on morality; What authority exists to declare something as unethical, or ethical, or how ethics themselves operate? Who has the authority to declare that others have authority, or have authority to grant authority, or to deny it? This opinion itself is as “unjustified” as anything else, and I don’t particularly esteem it above a morality based around saving toddlers or collecting stamps. I don’t want my nihilistic tendencies to come off as pessimism or rejection of the world; I don’t see any external criteria that my morality must meet, and I feel completely justified in whatever I believe ONLY in the sense that I don’t see any actual ‘permission’ or ‘denial’ existing that could affect my ideas. To grotesquely simplify, ladies and gentlemen, we are all piles of screaming meat, and I feel ANY significance to be ‘merely’ in my own head. Maybe I’m rambling about the obvious, and coming off as obnoxious in the process, I’m not sure, but in any case I’m certain that what I’ve just said is held by an extreme minority.
Who needs authority where you have arguement? it’s a matter of fact that people have been argued out of positions (particualry wrt race and gender).