5/ Usually to these people, any aspiration to objective moral judgment is objectionable. Reasonable I guess. But the badness designation doesn't have to be evaluated as an objective moral claim, but can instead be parsed as an intersubjective ‘moral-social’ claim.
do you think people engage in meta ethical speculation to further self serving nihilism? in my experience they are more likely to do it out of anxiety about being good
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I think people absolutely do both. Is it too memey to cite Nietzsche? He has great thoughts on self-serving morality. To dig a random one up, which is intense but I think gives an example which I consider psychologically realistic:pic.twitter.com/vOOCwUK1VG
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The anxiety to be good *can* be natural and honest, but in some cases can also have this more twisted self-serving or dishonest side. Not because the person doesn't truly want to be moral! Sometimes the weak lust to stand above others, so seek moral superiority. A type of safety
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