Mackie's error theory entails that moral discourse is systematically false, yet this cannot account for the phenomenological certainty of judgments like 'torturing innocents for fun is wrong'.

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Mackie: # Mackie J.L. Mackie was a 20th-century British philosopher best known for his work in ethics and the philosophy of religion. He argued that moral values don't actually exist objectively in the world, even though we talk and think about them as if they do—a view called "moral error theory." His ideas challenged traditional beliefs about right and wrong, influencing how philosophers today think about the foundations of morality.
Moral discourse(the subject being analyzed in this philosophical statement): The way people talk, argue, and reason about what is right and wrong.
Phenomenological certainty(referring to how convinced we feel about moral judgments): The strong, unmistakable feeling or sense of certainty that we experience when we make a judgment—how vividly real something seems to us from our subjective perspective.
error theory(The error theoretic conclusion is what Streumer's argument is directed toward): A metaethical view whose conclusion is reached in part by establishing that normative properties are not natural properties

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