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The best we can do is appeal to consistencies in human nature & human experience & work from that.
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Imagine a race of super intelligent aliens or AI's keeping humans as pets... There would be objective ways to make us flourish, or not.
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Yes. I have said if by objective moral truth you mean what makes humans flourish, I agree it exists.
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The scientific method.
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Also human. We're just talking abt what's best for most of us & the methods we have to help us work it out.
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Not for long. But sure, the same applies to quantum physics.
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But if there is such a thing as objective moral truth, it'd have to be bigger than humanity. Otherwise its relative to us.
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And mediated through our needs & wants & priorities. We can't see a bigger picture. Small local needs.
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They're what natural selection (the most objective and amoral force in the universe) is based on.
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Yeah, but I don't know what that has to do with morality.
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Nothing directly, but the point is that something which is highly localised (subjective) can still be objectively true.
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