Sculptor wrote: ↑Tue Oct 17, 2023 8:25 am
Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Tue Oct 17, 2023 2:39 am
Look at this possibility and analogy.
All humans ought [modal verb] to breathe, at least till the inevitable. As Hume insisted there is "No Ought From Is" which I agree.
But there is something invariant within the above.
What is invariant and factual with the oughtness-to breathe [a noun] is that it is a biological fact conditioned within the science-biology FSK.
No.
It is a biological fact that humans need to breath to live.
As the cessation of breathing in a living human normally means an end to life.
That is not to say they ought to.
Because to say they ought is an opinion saying they
should live.
You missed my critical points.
I agree to the above but the above is not my emphasis re biological fact of the need to breathe.
My focus is on the invariant physical elements that drive the need to breathe.
See below.
This instinct and compulsion to breathe is factual because it is driven by some physical set comprising the DNA, neuronal connectivity, neural algorithms, the brain and relevant parts from the body.
This is undeniable.
This is not about morals.
The very existence of humans on planet earth is morally questionable.
I did not say the above is about morals but refer to it as an
ANALOGY to explain the equivalent of moral facts.
Humans can still choose not to breathe, i.e. commit suicide via asphyxiation.
This is only because there is some damage to the above physical factual oughtness-to breathe system.
But there is no denial the factual oughtness-to breathe system is present in ALL humans from birth.
Slipping in the word "ought" is not relevant here.
Breathing is instinctive. There is not moral ought to breathing.
You totally missed my point again.
I did not equate the oughtness-to-breathe within morality in the above.
My point is,
just as the oughtness to breathe is supported by physical biological facts,
the oughtness-not-to-kill-humans is also supported by its related biological-facts which when inputed into a moral FSK dictates objective moral facts.
See below.
The above analogy is applicable to the oughtness-not-to-kill-humans which is a biological-fact and it is imputed into a human-based moral FSK which then become as objective moral fact.
Rubbish.
Even if you had a case for breathing on moral grounds, you cannot sneak in "thou shalt not kill".
Killing is a key part of nutrition.
In this case, I have not equated breathing with moral grounds.
It is just that both the oughtness-to-breathe and oughtness-not-to-kill-humans has their respective physical features of neurons in the brain and body.

re morality I am referring to oughtness-not-to-kill-
humans, surely killing of humans has nothing to do with nutrition, unless one is into cannibalism which itself is evil thus immoral.
Re nutrition, it is related to the just an oughtness-kill for food and self-defense to facilitate one's survival.
Why the majority cannot understand the above comparison and analogy is because the features of moral facts within the moral FSK [system] are more subtle in contrast to oughtness-to breathe system or the biological-taste-system.
I'm a meat eater, so find your morals unacceptable.
Note the above, the oughtness-not-to-kill-
humans has nothing to do with humans eating meat.
You are totally off key and pitchy with my points, suggest you read my points more carefully.
Here is another example;
All humans has a wide variation of subjectivity in their tastes and preferences for food and drinks. These
variations in taste are purely subjective thus cannot be objective in general.
I presumed you are familiar with, ALL humans has a drive for food that are sweet, but there are a millions of different preferences for their consumption of sweet things. These are subjective opinions.
However the majority are ignorant, all humans are "programmed" with a generic instinct to seek whatever that is edible and has 'glucose' [C6H12O6].
You cannot deny this instinct for glucose in all humans are supported by the same physical DNA, neurons and organs. You also cannot deny these are justifiable objective biological facts.
So, underlying the difference range of tastes and preference there are underlying invariant features, i.e. the generic tongue, taste buds, taste nerves and other mechanisms that facilitated a sense of taste.
Because these generic features are universal in all humans and can be verified and justified by the science-biology FSK, there is no denial that they are objective biological facts.
Just as the above example of the instincts of tastes and preference with its invariant facts,
there are also moral instincts with its underlying elements which are biological and related to morality, generating a wide variations of moral opinions, beliefs and judgments.
If there are no invariant moral features within the human body and brain how and where did the variations of moral opinions arose from.
One clue of the invariant features is the existence of mirror neurons which in part contribute to a sense of morality in all humans.
You deny this?
In time, neuroscientists will be able to find other physical features that drive and motivate the inherent moral sense in all humans that results in a variation of moral opinions.