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.
"The rock problem" is basically the difference between a descriptive system and an evaluative locus. A rock can give you structure, but it can’t give you responsibility. As soon as you choose, you become the one generating the evaluation (not discovering it).