“Judgmentalness” feels scary to some people because a part of our mind isn’t good at the use-mention distinction — “Alice says ‘you are bad’” and “You are bad” don’t feel different.
I additionally think that people originally get ideas about these “atoms of goodness” *from* social opinions; I think gods were originally modeled off of people, etc. you’re right, that’s a separate claim, not a logical entailment.
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Even if atoms of goodness are culturally or socially defined, that still allows for very wide departure between what someone might think and what the social consensus would determine given full information, self-reflection, etc.
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You can be a moral subjectivist and pretty much a moral absolutist at the same time. That's my position FWIW.
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