There is a defense of ideas related to your position here
For the record I also don’t find that post compelling, and I’m not sure how related it is to my point. I think you can coherently think that the moral truth is consistent (and that ethics is likely to not be consistent if there is no moral truth), but be uncertain about it. Analogously I’m pretty uncertain what the correct decision theory is, and think that whatever that decision theory is, it would have to be self-consistent.
Yeah that makes sense to me. To be clear, the fact that two smart people have told me that they disagree with my sense that moral realism pushes against consistency seems like good evidence that my intuitions shouldn’t be taken too strongly here.
For the record I also don’t find that post compelling, and I’m not sure how related it is to my point. I think you can coherently think that the moral truth is consistent (and that ethics is likely to not be consistent if there is no moral truth), but be uncertain about it. Analogously I’m pretty uncertain what the correct decision theory is, and think that whatever that decision theory is, it would have to be self-consistent.
Yeah that makes sense to me. To be clear, the fact that two smart people have told me that they disagree with my sense that moral realism pushes against consistency seems like good evidence that my intuitions shouldn’t be taken too strongly here.