Okay, cite an example of a preference that you just pulled out of your ass.
How exactly would that work? Out of the blue, with absolutely no context whatsoever, something just spontaneously pops into your head and that becomes the basis for your preference?
You can’t say that one individual’s preferences are better than some other individual’s. Right? (Expect your own of course. )
We can offer arguments to support our own set of assumptions. But so can those who embrace the oppositie point of view. Those who choose the oppositie behaviors.
Just go here – procon.org/ – and peruse all of the available issues. Arguments pro and con that are not just pulled out of someone’s ass.
And my point on this thread focuses more on the manner in which individual men and women come to acquire their own set of values. In other words, the extent to which that is or is not rooted in the manner in which I construe the meaning of dasein.
So you have a world with billions of preferred outcomes which are equivalent. Or a society with hundreds, thousands or millions of equivalent outcomes.
This just reflects the manner in which you twist my conjectures into some sort of obtuse monstrosity that goes nowhere near the actual interactions of conflicted human beings.
So you decide morality and ethics by a democratic vote.
Which some construe to be the best of all possible worlds. The moral narrative regarding abortion can be enforced by one or another state, by one or another community consensus or by a political tug of war in which the rule of law prevails.
As for the “‘normal’ people out-voting the bat-shit crazies”, choose a particular conflicting good and let’s try to pin down the manner in which you differentiate them.
When you you get down to it, you are placing your faith in some kind of ‘human nature’ which transcends the historical, cultural and personal “quirkiness”. IOW, the existence of a transcending set of preferences.
No, when you get down to it. And, when you do, this is what my frame of mind here gets twisted into. I become, what, another Satyr insisting that my own take on “human nature” transcends all others?