This is the common root for most, if not all, of the objectivist stuff that goes on here. This assumption that if there isn't a cosmic truth undergirding morality then anything goes. It's the false and lazy assumption that the only alternative to rigid factual hiearchy is randomness.Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Fri Jun 17, 2022 7:55 am Without the identification of objective moral facts, one's moral system will be very subjective and anything goes, including the possibility of genocides and the extinction of the human species.
I understand it, even if I despise the stupidity of it, when a theist like IC does it. But somebody who thinks they are non-theistic doing this, as part of a top down teliological argument to boot, is horrifying.