for those who might not know, Emotivism is the belief that the words "good" or "bad" refers to emotions that we have, not beliefs or true statements. — aminima
(1) if words like "bad" are supposed to express emotions, that we would predict that the stronger the emotion, the more "bad" something would be. however, in some cases this is not the true. for example, I think it is equally immoral to kill my mom than to kill a stranger, however, I have stronger emotions tied to the idea of someone killing my mom. — aminima
(2) the way we form moral judgements is more like how we form other objective belief's, and less like how we acquire emotions. — aminima
for example if I want to know if capital punishment is bad, I think about it, read about it, and talk to other people about it. this is exactly like how I acquire my other beliefs (like the fine-tuning argument doesn't succeed, or there's an external world), and not at all how I acquire emotions. — aminima
not at all how I acquire emotions. we don't read, discuss or think about what emotions we have, much less worry about getting them right. — aminima
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