What could it possibly mean, to say that something is “better”, except from some perspective, within some context? What could it possibly mean to say that something is “right” (in principle), other than from some larger perspective, within a larger context?
It’s always perspectival—the illusion of objectivity arises because you share your values, fine-grained and deeply hierarchical, due to your place as a twig on a branch on a tree rooted in the mists of a common physics and with a common evolutionary trajectory. Of course you share values with your neighboring twigs, and you can find moral agreement by traversing the tree of evolutionarily instilled values back toward the trunk to find a branch that supports you and your neighboring agents, but from what god-like point of view could they ever be “objective”?
What could it possibly mean, to say that something is “better”, except from some perspective, within some context? What could it possibly mean to say that something is “right” (in principle), other than from some larger perspective, within a larger context?
It’s always perspectival—the illusion of objectivity arises because you share your values, fine-grained and deeply hierarchical, due to your place as a twig on a branch on a tree rooted in the mists of a common physics and with a common evolutionary trajectory. Of course you share values with your neighboring twigs, and you can find moral agreement by traversing the tree of evolutionarily instilled values back toward the trunk to find a branch that supports you and your neighboring agents, but from what god-like point of view could they ever be “objective”?