The existence of morality certainly is an objective fact about people: it’s an objective fact that people have moral values, make moral judgments, and so on. But that’s not with the dispute between moral realists and antirealists is about.
GPT: “The debate between moral realists and antirealists concerns whether moral facts exist objectively (independently of opinions and feelings). Realists think they do, antirealists think they do not.”
No part of reality is inherently good or bad. But our consciousness is the vanguard of matter. We are the only possible way for our part of the universe to perceive anything at all. The human mechanism of categorization is the only one available in our corner of the universe. Humans are moral, and so in the observable cosmos, what is bad is what humans are wired to think is bad.
The existence of morality certainly is an objective fact about people: it’s an objective fact that people have moral values, make moral judgments, and so on. But that’s not with the dispute between moral realists and antirealists is about.
GPT: “The debate between moral realists and antirealists concerns whether moral facts exist objectively (independently of opinions and feelings). Realists think they do, antirealists think they do not.”
No part of reality is inherently good or bad. But our consciousness is the vanguard of matter. We are the only possible way for our part of the universe to perceive anything at all. The human mechanism of categorization is the only one available in our corner of the universe. Humans are moral, and so in the observable cosmos, what is bad is what humans are wired to think is bad.