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From: KMO <kmo@c-realm.com>
Date: Sunday, February 21, 1999 6:55 PM
><<Joe Dees>>
>
><<People who make normative declarations such as "corporations should
>pay more taxes" are asserting something about the existent state of
>affairs; that it compares unfavorably with their ideal (utopian)
>hypothetical SOA in the described respect.>>
>
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>Hey, that's good. That gives normative statements truth value without
>recourse to "moral facts." Still, it seems to me that most people do
It does, but then all normative statements are true, even ones that express logically opposite goals.
person A:
"corporations should pay more taxes" = "In my ideal SOA, corporations
would pay more taxes" = true for person A
>believe that there are moral truths. Even people who are amenable to a
>liberal dose of cultural relativism generally insist on a bedrock of
>universal rights and wrongs. Again, this is my perception, and my
>perceptions are heavily filtered.
I think you are right in that my views would be in the minority. You haven't mentioned which way you would swing on the issue. Still undecided?
David