Posted: Sep 27, 2017 11:21 am
archibald wrote:
I've told you why not smoking is a moral issue in the light of what follws from a particular moral premise.
Yes, you have:
archibald wrote:
In relation to the premise, smoking tobacco does not enhance general wellbeing, not just for the individual (who may decide for himself) but for society. Therefore, if the moral premise is wellbeing, you can easily get an ought from it. That doesn't mean other situations aren't more complicated, of course.
But now you're stuck with an objective 'general wellbeing' as dictating the content of ethical principles. And I thought you declined moral realism. I don't just mean that general wellbeing is something that can be inspected in this way or that, but that you want to make ethical principles themselves subject to examination. That's as close as you've come to ethical realism yet. If you don't accept it as a moral principle, then that's a private codicil on an objective moral principle.