If you think morality would be of benefit to you, and you don’t think it is pre existing in the territory, then you have a motivation to construct it.l, and therefore to engage with it
That’s particularly true of the plural “you”. Consider contractualism, one of the main forms of constructivism. It’s in everyone’s interests to get into arrangements of the form “I agree not to murder you if you agree not to murder me”...the benefits are considerable , and the costs are minor (so long as you are not a sociopath).
If you frame the question as “why should an iindividual , moral anti realist, who doesn’t care about interactions or coordination with others, engage with ethics”… then it’s much harder to solve .
If you think morality would be of benefit to you, and you don’t think it is pre existing in the territory, then you have a motivation to construct it.l, and therefore to engage with it
That’s particularly true of the plural “you”. Consider contractualism, one of the main forms of constructivism. It’s in everyone’s interests to get into arrangements of the form “I agree not to murder you if you agree not to murder me”...the benefits are considerable , and the costs are minor (so long as you are not a sociopath).
If you frame the question as “why should an iindividual , moral anti realist, who doesn’t care about interactions or coordination with others, engage with ethics”… then it’s much harder to solve .