Im curious about your view. Do you think that we cant say its a moral fact that its better (1) to feed newborn baby with milk from its mother and sooth it tenderly so it stops crying compared to (2) chop its fingers of one by one slowly with a dull blade and then leave it bleeding? And this moral evaluation depends on your state of mind?
Do you think that we cant say its a moral fact that [...]
Correct, I would call that a category error.
And this moral evaluation depends on your state of mind?
One’s view of the wrongness of torturing a newborn versus soothing it depends on one’s state of mind, yes.
If I were confronted with someone who insisted that “torturing a newborn instead of soothing it is good, actually”, I could say that was “wrong” in the sense of evil, but there is no evidence I could present which, in itself, would show it to be “wrong” in the sense of incorrect.
Im curious about your view. Do you think that we cant say its a moral fact that its better (1) to feed newborn baby with milk from its mother and sooth it tenderly so it stops crying compared to (2) chop its fingers of one by one slowly with a dull blade and then leave it bleeding? And this moral evaluation depends on your state of mind?
Correct, I would call that a category error.
One’s view of the wrongness of torturing a newborn versus soothing it depends on one’s state of mind, yes.
If I were confronted with someone who insisted that “torturing a newborn instead of soothing it is good, actually”, I could say that was “wrong” in the sense of evil, but there is no evidence I could present which, in itself, would show it to be “wrong” in the sense of incorrect.