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On Objective Morality

Should/ought statements don't inform on the nature of morality, that is they don't tell us what is or isn't moral. Rather, should/ought statements are made from what we already believe to be moral and it is this morality that I propose we can conclude objectively. (claim, needs examples) Science is at its most useful when it can reliably predict/discover the nature of reality. If we accept this aspect of science to be accurate then we can conclude that fields of study like history, economics, psychology and meteorology can be considered scientific so long as they can predict/discover the past, present and future nature of reality they aim to explain with useful amounts of reliability. That these fields don't follow the scientific method doesn't invalidate them as scientific, it merely means that the scientific method is an incomplete method for explaining reality. (demonstrate the predictability of ethics. Must be rigorous enough to match the usefulness of other ...

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