What is the distinction between ethics and emotions?

Dustin · January 05, 2015, 03:32:15 PM

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Mad Max · January 05, 2015, 03:48:56 PM

Quote from: Dustin xLilD on January 05, 2015, 03:32:15 PM

To me that's an emotional argument so I promptly dismiss it.

Then you're wrong.

More Than Mortal · January 05, 2015, 03:50:43 PM

Happy to answer them.

For the record, I'm a moral realist. I think morality has to necessarily operate from an assumption of human well-being, and human well-being necessarily relates to facts regarding states of the brain. Our ability to perceive moral facts, which may be poor, has no bearing on the existence of moral facts.