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The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

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There are some particular moral truths that I believe we have access to (such as the one not to inflict pain on a sentient being for no reason).

Access, Believe, Moral, Pain
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You should not take the content of your intuitive response as evidence until you have submitted your psychological reaction to what I call cognitive psychotherapy. You should do what you can to learn as much as possible about the origin of your reaction.

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If two norms conflict, if they are mutually inconsistent, then at least one of them must be false.

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It is true (independently of our conceptualisation) that it is wrong to inflict pain on a sentient creature for no reason (she doesn't deserve it, I haven't promised to do it, it is not helpful to this creature or to anyone else if I do it, and so forth). But if this is a truth, existing independently of our conceptualisation, then at least one moral fact (this one) exists and moral realism is true. We have to accept this, I submit, unless we can find strong reasons to think otherwise.

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I believe that one basic question, what we ought to do, period (the moral question), is a genuine one. There exists a true answer to it, which is independent of our thought and conceptualisation.

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I am indeed a moral realist.

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