On the one hand, nothing is necessarily true about an arbitrary mind, because nothing is true about all minds, for the same reason that there are no universally compelling arguments.
On the other hand, this is just another disagreement about what words refer to: someone who says “moral judgments necessarily motivate” is just saying “a judgement that does not motivate, does not fit my definition of moral”. This is not a fact about the world or about morality, it’s a fact about the way that person uses the words “moral judgment”.
If there is indeed wide disagreement on the answer to this question—I write this before voting and haven’t seen the results yet—then that is yet another argument for tabooing the word “morality”.
On the one hand, nothing is necessarily true about an arbitrary mind, because nothing is true about all minds, for the same reason that there are no universally compelling arguments.
On the other hand, this is just another disagreement about what words refer to: someone who says “moral judgments necessarily motivate” is just saying “a judgement that does not motivate, does not fit my definition of moral”. This is not a fact about the world or about morality, it’s a fact about the way that person uses the words “moral judgment”.
If there is indeed wide disagreement on the answer to this question—I write this before voting and haven’t seen the results yet—then that is yet another argument for tabooing the word “morality”.