u/xGentian_violet

When users who already have their profile hidden from the public block the mods, mods are unable to see their posting history outside of their own sub

On political subs, this makes moderation nearly impossible

There is a selection of subs that brigades or trolls our space regularly, and if the users just block us mods first, they can evade both detection, and an appropriately long ban

This feature also prevents us from paying closer attention to some users (i.e. putting a mod note) due to their posting history, such as them being regulars in far-right subs.

PS:

If this is not an appropriate sub for this type of complaint, and another sub for this type of content does exist, please tell me the name of the sub

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I’m struggling to locate/name my own meta-ethical view, in terms of non-cognitivism/cognitivism, and its various subtypes.

I was hoping this community could help me with that.

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I believe moral judgements can consist of several “layers”; a layer of emotional attitude followed by a process of reasoning based on that emotional attitude

Here’s an example;

let’s say I am a utilitarian and i am seeking to see how normalising meat eating in society will reflect upon my moral aim of minimising the suffering of sentient life.

I am aiming to minimise the suffering of sentient life to minimise my own suffering, and maximise my own wellbeing, because knowing sentient animals are suffering unnecessarily because of me causes me mental distress.

Here I am starting from a set of values based in personal emotional attitudes (my sentiocentrism), but on top of that i am engaging in logical reasoning and constructing norms based on their effect on society, and their helpfulness or unhelpfulness to achieving my own moral objectives/satisfying my emotional preferences

I determine that normalising meat consumption in society is detrimental to my ethical aims.

This becomes a belief.

If, despite adhering to this ethical framework, and despite there hypothetically being an absence of physical limitations to this goal (severe food intolerance reactions, etc) I ended up not acting to give up meat eating, this would reveal competing desires within me;

1. Desire to achieve satisfaction by acting out one’s moral philosophy in the real world
2. desire for immiediate sensory gratification through meat consumption

It would also reveal to me that my mind deems itself, or is, temporarily or permanently psychologically incapable of living up to the moral goal of not eating meat, whether due to external factors (environmental stress levels that exceed my psychological coping capacity) or internal factors (addictive relationship with certain foods, disorganisation…).

it would indicate to me that the human mind ceases to be a moral actor under certain conditions, or isn’t one under any conditions.

This would explain akrasia/weakness of will.

Id comfortably call myself a hard incompatibilist and a proponent of Hume’s view on reason (“reason is the slave of the passions”).

I deem morality to be a social technology for regulating and influencing human behaviour, rather than an expression of metaphysical freedom.

The question isn’t "did they deserve blame?" rather "Is blaming them useful for social coordination?"

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I suspect this is a form of non-emotivist expressivism, but i am not entirely sure.

Is this a hybrid expressivism that combines non-cognitivism with cognitivism? Is it quasi-realism?

or something else entirely?

thank you

PS:

I am not intending for people to debate my views, nor is sharing/evangelising my views on ethics the point of the post

I am specifically seeking help with simply locating the described views within existing meta-ethical theories.

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