Russell Blackford–The Mechanics of Moral Evaluation

Moral evaluations are important, then, but they are not radically different from all the other evaluations that we make every day, even if we have an ingrained wish they were or an ingrained tendency to think they are.

Moral discussion is a domain of ambiguity where our all-things-considered judgments can be underdetermined by the objective facts.

That’s the murky, complex reality. Somehow, I submit, we must learn to live with it.

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