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Ima Prescriptivist thinks that our moral thinking can be free because
{ 1 } - moral beliefs express our likes and dislikes.
{ 2 } - "good" means "socially approved."
{ 3 } - moral beliefs express our own desires and aren't provable from facts.
{ 4 } - nothing prevents us from Nazi moral views -- or whatever else we like.
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Ima Prescriptivist thinks that our moral thinking can be free because
{ 1 } - moral beliefs express our likes and dislikes.
{ 2 } - "good" means "socially approved."
{ 3 } - moral beliefs express our own desires and aren't provable from facts.
{ 4 } - nothing prevents us from Nazi moral views -- or whatever else we like.
This is subjectivism.
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Ima Prescriptivist thinks that our moral thinking can be free because
{ 1 } - moral beliefs express our likes and dislikes.
{ 2 } - "good" means "socially approved."
{ 3 } - moral beliefs express our own desires and aren't provable from facts.
{ 4 } - nothing prevents us from Nazi moral views -- or whatever else we like.
This is cultural relativism -- which gives you no freedom to think for yourself on moral issues. You'd have to go along with the crowd, with whatever the majority approves of, and couldn't disagree.
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Ima Prescriptivist thinks that our moral thinking can be free because
{ 1 } - moral beliefs express our likes and dislikes.
{ 2 } - "good" means "socially approved."
{ 3 } - moral beliefs express our own desires and aren't provable from facts.
{ 4 } - nothing prevents us from Nazi moral views -- or whatever else we like.
Besides being free, moral thinking should also be rational.
Moral thinking can be rational because the logic of "ought" leads to a method of moral reasoning that engages our rational powers to their limits.
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Ima Prescriptivist thinks that our moral thinking can be free because
{ 1 } - moral beliefs express our likes and dislikes.
{ 2 } - "good" means "socially approved."
{ 3 } - moral beliefs express our own desires and aren't provable from facts.
{ 4 } - nothing prevents us from Nazi moral views -- or whatever else we like.
Moral rationality (including GR consistency) would prevent us from holding Nazi moral views.
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