Walter Veit (@walterveit)’s Article on objective and subjective morality — which one of the two is real.
Walter Veit (@walterveit)
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Steven:
When I am in a moral quandary, and I need guidance for figuring out what to do, I think “What would a rock do?” and then I remember that I’m not a rock. And whatever I do, is on me—not the rock.
That, to me, is the part moral realism often tries to escape. It wants morality to be discovered like geology, when most of the actual work of morality feels more like judgment under responsibility. The rock does not care. The universe does not sign the permission slip. We still have to choose, justify, revise, and live with the consequences.
Morality isn’t science to discover, it’s burden we carry with us.