Ethics and Values / Unit 1 Ethics 020 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Disagreement Shortcut
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The idea
The disagreement shortcut infers, from persistent moral disagreement, that no moral claim is true; persistence of dispute does not settle truth.
In practice
Some societies once held the earth flat. The long disagreement with astronomers never made the earth's shape a matter of taste.
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