Yes, I believe there are better and worse answers. I just don't believe these are objectively true coz the universe doesn't care about us
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Replying to @HPluckrose
The universe doesn't care about much of anything... Evolution doesn't care about truth, only heuristic approximations that are good enough.
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Replying to @AtheistStoned @HPluckrose
We ought to value truth because it is true, not because it is beautiful or useful, though it is often both these things too!
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Replying to @AtheistStoned @HPluckrose
Still a bit concerned about this, if you have time. Would you not agree that truths about subjective human experience are objectively true?
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Replying to @AtheistStoned
Well, yes. I really do believe humanism is best for humanity. Someone else really does believe Sharia is.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Humanism probably is best for humanity, but Sharia is objectively wrong (as evidenced by all the subjective suffering it causes.)
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Replying to @AtheistStoned @HPluckrose
The fact that people can subjectively be wrong about something does not mean that there are no objective truths!
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But objective moral truths? What exists outside humanity that we can measure against?
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Replying to @HPluckrose @AtheistStoned
The best we can do is appeal to consistencies in human nature & human experience & work from that.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
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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