Originally posted by carpedm9587
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No. We have to take for grantehat we are dealing with a person for whom honesty is a moral good. Better yet, we should verify that fact if we have any reason to question it. If we are not dealing with someone who sees honesty as a moral good, and is prone to lying, then a logical discussion is pointless. This is true in either the subjective or objective meta-ethical world, whether honesty is relatively good or absolutely good. You are confusing ethics with meta-ethics. Even in an absolute/objective meta-ethics, a person may choose to lie for any number of reasons, making rational discussion pointless. The issue is not the meta-ethical concept of how moral principles are derived - it is the specific moral principle Person X adhere's to.
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