Is morality objective or subjective?

Should you think about your duty, or about the consequences of your actions? Or should you concentrate on becoming a good person?

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Re: Is morality objective or subjective?

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Skepdick wrote: Tue Mar 02, 2021 3:23 pm
Terrapin Station wrote: Tue Mar 02, 2021 3:16 pm The purpose is that some phenomena only occur in brains, and some people claim that those phenomena occur elsewhere (only, or too).
You are saying the same shit in different words.

Yes. some phenomena only occur at some locations and not other locations.

Like the phenomenon of "life". It only occurs in this universe.

So what?
Again, so, some people claim otherwise. It's useful to have words in which to express disagreement about that.
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Terrapin Station wrote: Tue Mar 02, 2021 3:24 pm Again, so, some people claim otherwise. It's useful to have words in which to express disagreement about that.
What is the otherwise claim to "Some phenomena only occur at some locations and not other locations." ?
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Skepdick wrote: Tue Mar 02, 2021 3:24 pm
Terrapin Station wrote: Tue Mar 02, 2021 3:24 pm Again, so, some people claim otherwise. It's useful to have words in which to express disagreement about that.
What is the otherwise claim to "Some phenomena only occur at some locations and not other locations." ?
Can you stop trolling?
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Terrapin Station wrote: Tue Mar 02, 2021 3:26 pm Can you stop trolling?
Not trolling.

I am still unclear about the point of your point. Given that the principle is a clear truism.

Some phenomena only occur at some locations and not other locations.

SO WHAT?
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Skepdick wrote: Tue Mar 02, 2021 3:26 pm
Terrapin Station wrote: Tue Mar 02, 2021 3:26 pm Can you stop trolling?
Not trolling.
Then what's the problem?

What's the topic of the thread?
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Terrapin Station wrote: Tue Mar 02, 2021 3:29 pm Then what's the problem?

What's the topic of the thread?
The problem is the undecidability of distinctions.

Is the objective/subjective distinction objective or subjective?
Is it Indexical or non-indexical.
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Skepdick wrote: Tue Mar 02, 2021 3:31 pm
Terrapin Station wrote: Tue Mar 02, 2021 3:29 pm Then what's the problem?

What's the topic of the thread?
The problem is the undecidability of distinctions.
Then how did you decide to use the word "undecidable" rather than "decidable"? (As well as the words "The" "problem," "is" etc.?)
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Terrapin Station wrote: Tue Mar 02, 2021 3:33 pm Then how did you decide to use the word "undecidable" rather than "decidable"? (As well as the words "The" "problem," "is" etc.?)
Trivially. I didn't know HOW to decide, therefore I used "undecidable".

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Skepdick wrote: Tue Mar 02, 2021 3:36 pm
Terrapin Station wrote: Tue Mar 02, 2021 3:33 pm Then how did you decide to use the word "undecidable" rather than "decidable"? (As well as the words "The" "problem," "is" etc.?)
Trivially. I didn't know HOW to decide, therefore I used "undecidable".
Huh? So you mean you just went with one on a whim?
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Terrapin Station wrote: Tue Mar 02, 2021 3:38 pm Huh? So you mean you just went with one on a whim?
It's not a whim.

I couldn't decide! So I said "undecidable"

If you think it's decidable - tell me how.
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Skepdick wrote: Tue Mar 02, 2021 3:40 pm
Terrapin Station wrote: Tue Mar 02, 2021 3:38 pm Huh? So you mean you just went with one on a whim?
It's not a whim.

I couldn't decide! So I said "undecidable"
That was a decision. If you choose to not decide, you still have made a choice.
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Terrapin Station wrote: Tue Mar 02, 2021 3:42 pm That was a decision. If you choose to not decide, you still have made a choice.
A choice is not a decision.

Decisions require information.
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Skepdick wrote: Tue Mar 02, 2021 3:46 pm
Terrapin Station wrote: Tue Mar 02, 2021 3:42 pm That was a decision. If you choose to not decide, you still have made a choice.
A choice is not a decision.

Decisions require information.
Is that a distinction you've decided?
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Terrapin Station wrote: Tue Mar 02, 2021 3:47 pm Is that a distinction you've decided?
No. It's the default position.

Everything is distinct from everything else, right?

Sameness is a decision.
Difference is not.
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Skepdick wrote: Tue Mar 02, 2021 3:51 pm
Terrapin Station wrote: Tue Mar 02, 2021 3:47 pm Is that a distinction you've decided?
No. It's the default position.
The "default position" per what?
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