Jeremy Stangroom

I use the analogy with a map.Knowing that a correct map to our moral destination exists is of no help unless we can be sure we have that map

@sjzara That's not true. If there is such a thing as a correct map, then it means there are incorrect maps. We might be able to identify...

@sjzara incorrect maps even if we're not able to identify a correct map (maps might fall into two categories, those we know are wrong and

@sjzara those we have no grounds to suppose are either wrong or right. This isn't particularly counterintuitive: I don't quite know what

@sjzara communism is, but I know what it isn't (e.g., rampant market economy). If there are objective moral values, then it at least means

@sjzara I'm not immediately in error if I say the Nazis were wrong to slaughter 6,000,000 people (even if I don't yet know how to ground...

@sjzara this claim or rebut all possible objections to it.

@PhilosophyExp But isn't the way we find out what the wrong moral maps are through agreed premises and argument?