Originally posted by JimL
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You are trying to establish an absolute/objective good for a society and it simply doesn't exist. "Good" is a qualitative assessment that requires a valuer and a metric to assess. Depending on the valuer and the selected metric, the assessment will differ. A thing is not "intrinsically good." It is "good as assessed by X using metric Y."
If you don't believe this, take your "random killing is immoral" principle and explain why it is an objective good without making reference to any subjectively selected metric and in a way that demonstrates that everyone/everywhere/everywhen will assess it as a "good." This is what you need to do to show it is objective and absolute/universal.
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