no issue with that - if as equal moral relativists we accept each others relative moral judgments. If that is what you are saying. — Rank Amateur
but the relative art critic must accept relative judgment of other relative art critics — Rank Amateur
Okay, subjectively two competing stances aren't on equal ground, are they? — Terrapin Station
I think competing stances between moral relativists are on completely equal ground - by definition — Rank Amateur
can't play these word games with you. I have restated the concept like 4 times to you - i can't do it any better sorry - I am out of other ways to say it — Rank Amateur
The point is that some judgements are better than others just as some works are better than others, and we know this is true, and it can be detremined in extreme cases of difference, — Janus
Some judgements are better than others; the word "objectively" is meaningless in this context, unless it refers to something like 'in accordance with the best subjective feelings'. — Janus
No, not per any particular individual's judgement — Janus
Accept it how? Accept that they have a different judgment? Or accept it in the sense of saying, "Well, that's as good as my own judgment"? — Terrapin Station
That is, look closely enough and there's a right and a wrong, a moral and an immoral. But it's not too difficult to make excuses for not looking. — tim wood
Look at it this way, with something that's less controversially a matter of preferences:
Say that Joe prefers the taste of pizza to the taste of horseradish.
Bob, though, prefers horseradish to pizza.
Is Joe going to say, "From my perspective, Bob's preference is just as good as mine"?
Wouldn't that imply that Joe doesn't actually have a preference between pizza and horseradish? If one preference is just as good to Joe as another from his perspective, then he shouldn't have a preference in the first place. This is pretty wrapped up in how preferences work/what they are. — Terrapin Station
Individual subjective views are more or less consonant with general subjective human good will. — Janus
Aztecs are known for cutting the living hearts out of their human sacrifices. Thuggees, in India, as a matter of faith felt they ought to strangle strangers. Anyone willing to dismiss these as mere exercises of a relative morality themselves neither right nor wrong probably should be excused from this thread. — tim wood
Culinary and moral preferences are not at all of equal consequence to human life. — Janus
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