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JoG said:Yes and no. As one quickly sees in the empirical study of the Fat Man Paradox our moral hard wiring is less than perfect and makes us believe factually identical results are of differing moral value and even contradictory in many cases.
I don't think this is the correct analysis. Immanuel Kant got a few things right, and one thing he got right is that reasoning about consequences is not the correct way to reason about morals. The fat man paradox isn't a paradox in this view. Note that this does not mean consequences are of no, er, consequence in moral reasoning. Merely that taking consequences as among one's axioms is incorrect.
JoG said:This appears to happen in many situations and with very different moral postulates the result being a loss of anything near objectivity.
The same is true of the cutting edge of mathematics. But that doesn't imply there's no truth to mathematics. One way to account for the lack of agreement is implied in my previous post: too many people don't put themselves in the correct position to see a truth.