The correlation between moral objectivism and interventionism is probably true, but I think it’s historically contingent, and not a logical consequence of objectivism. Whether or not I think of my morality as objective (universal) or subjective (a property of myself), that’s orthogonal to what I actually think is moral.
I’m a moral relativist. My morality is that torture and murder are wrong and I am justified and, indeed, sometimes enjoined to use force to stop them. I don’t think this is an uncommon stand.
Other people are moral objectivists, but their actual morals may tell them to leave others alone except in self-defense.
The correlation between moral objectivism and interventionism is probably true, but I think it’s historically contingent, and not a logical consequence of objectivism. Whether or not I think of my morality as objective (universal) or subjective (a property of myself), that’s orthogonal to what I actually think is moral.
I’m a moral relativist. My morality is that torture and murder are wrong and I am justified and, indeed, sometimes enjoined to use force to stop them. I don’t think this is an uncommon stand.
Other people are moral objectivists, but their actual morals may tell them to leave others alone except in self-defense.