Then you are not a moral or a political objectivist. The main focus of my arguments.
Okay, but what then are you?
If you argue that there are in fact actual rational people in regard to conflicting goods, and they are not obligated to think like you do then aren’t you obligated to think as they do?
Otherwise that would make you irrational.
Only discussing this up in the clouds is one thing, bringing our own moral narrative and political agenda out into the world of actual human interactions, another thing altogether.
And here we need a context. The coronavirus. What are you saying…that you believe in an objective morality here that rational people have access to but that your own assessment may not be rational at all?
Okay, then how would rational peole go about demonstrating the most sensible way in which virtuous people should behave in a particular context whereby conflicts erupt over the best way to react to it?
I understand why people steal, cheat, kill. If they do that, then they are not going to be bound by some abstract obligation.
Isn’t that basically what I am trying to avoid here myself? Don’t discuss stealing, cheating, killing etc., by referencing some religious scripture, or political ideology, or social/economic ism, or deontological assumption or assessments of nature. Instead, recognize how the experiences that encompass the life that you have lived in a particular historical, cultural and experiential context is far more likely to have shaped and molded your own rendition of the existential “I”.
Your demonstration would show that those things are objectively immoral but those people still have the capacity to do those things and to be called immoral. And they will do them.
What’s so special about this demonstration?
Of course we don’t make that point about demonstrations in the either/or world.
There something is either demonstrated or it is not. Thus the extraordinary technologies over the past decades are ample proof regarding what either is or is not in sync with what is in fact true.
But I suspect that to the extent that truly rational men and women could in fact demonstrate the most sensible and ethical manner in which to react to the coronavirus, that would be deemed special indeed.