Moral error theory has many troubling and counterintuitive consequences. It entails, for example, that actions we ordinarily think of as obviously wrong are not wrong at all. This simple observation is at the heart of much opposition to error theory. I provide a new defense against it. The defense is based on the impossibility of finding satisfying solutions to a wide range of puzzles and paradoxes in moral philosophy. It is a consequence of this that if any moral claims are true, then a lot of highly troubling and counterintuitive moral claims must be in their number. This means that troubling and counterintuitive moral claims are everybody’s problem—not just error theorists’, but also their opponents’. Indeed, there is a sense in which this shared problem is worse for the opponents of error theory than for error theorists themselves.

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为什么道德悖论支持错误理论

道德错误理论有许多令人不安和违反直觉的后果。例如，它意味着我们通常认为明显错误的行为根本就不是错误的。这个简单的观察是许多反对错误理论的核心。我提供了一种新的防御措施。这种辩护的基础是，不可能为道德哲学中的各种难题和悖论找到令人满意的解决方案。其结果是，如果任何道德主张是正确的，那么一定有许多非常令人不安和违反直觉的道德主张。这意味着令人不安和违反直觉的道德主张是每个人的问题——不仅是错误理论家的问题，也是他们的反对者的问题。事实上，从某种意义上说，这个共同的问题对于错误理论的反对者来说比对于错误理论家本身来说更糟糕。