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Now… so there are subjective facts.
If you happen to have an intact nervous system
being burned alive will be excruciatingly painful.
The painfulness of pain is a subjective fact about you.
What my argument entails is that there are…
We can speak objectively about a certain class of subjective facts
that go by the name of morality
that relate to questions of good and evil
and these depend upon…
on the well-being of conscious creatures
especially our own.
And by this light we can see that it's possible to value the wrong things.
If you think you prefer to be neurotic and in pain
and incapable of creative work
and completely disconnected from other people
there's something wrong with you.
Objectively wrong with you?
Yes.
In that you are closed to higher states of consciousness.
Higher with respect to what?
Higher as in further from the lowest possible state of consciousness.
The worst possible misery for everyone.
Is the worst possible misery for everyone really bad?
Once again, we have hit philosophical bedrock
with the shovel of a stupid question.