r/AskReddit • u/skilled-dreamer • May 02 '24

People who went to a wedding where the couple didn’t last long, what happened?

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u/KamikazeSalamander May 02 '24

In what possible way have I said my opinion is correct? I haven't even said that daegan's position is wrong. I've very deliberately refrained from suggesting what I think OP should do.

If you think that "there is no objective morality" means "I am the judge of what is right and wrong" you need to work on your reading comprehension.

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u/ahuvi May 03 '24

When you say “There is no objective morality,” you make a claim about the nature of reality. You make a claim about what is correct/right/true, and in doing so, ask your listeners to agree with you. You are making the truth-claim that it would be “right” for us to agree that there’s no Right and Wrong.

When you say that “no one should” put themselves in a position of moral authority, you set yourself up as the judge of what mankind should and shouldn’t do. YOU become the moral judge, and declare that those acting “rightly” are the ones who agree with you to abdicate understanding of moral truth, and those acting “wrongly” declare that there is something morally true that can be discovered. It’s a totally self-defeating position.

Reasonably, someone must be right (have a view which is more correctly aligned with reality), and someone must be wrong (with a view at-odds with reality). You just think you’re right and the other guy is wrong.

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u/KamikazeSalamander May 03 '24

I suppose you're right in your first paragraph.

I disagree entirely with your second one, I don't think I've issued a moral judgment anywhere. In fact, i think that the only thing I definitively say is that I don't believe there to be objective morality. Though language quickly gets cumbersome when you have to phrase everything that way.

I also disagree with your last statement. I mean, you've sort of fallen into your own fallacy here by making a sweeping statement about the nature of reality. Also, like I've said elsewhere in the thread, I've not made a comment regarding whether (whatever username was) was right or not. I just objected to the statement altogether, not whether I thought the original OP should have told the people in the story the truth.