Originally posted by Starlight
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"As I write this I'm wondering if I should have even brought this up. Calling murder morally wrong works for just about all of humanity, and in that sense it doesn't even really matter if there is some actual moral category out there that we can't access. Maybe I'm just trying to count those dancing angels."
Basically, I wish we could dispense with the term 'moral' when it comes to judging human actions. It comes with too much baggage. If someone performs an act that benefits a lot of people (apart from other considerations) I have no trouble saying that they've done something good, without reference to any deity or any ethereal notion of morality. Similary, if I read of someone murdering someone, or raping someone, I don't need to think about deistic rules or any Platonic concepts to quickly form the opinion that they have acted badly and that society is better off if people do not perform such acts and that we should (all) act so as to prevent them where we can.
I think talking of the morality of such acts basically just confuses the issue.
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