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    There are true moral standards that depend on what would ... — Carmelics
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    There are true moral standards that depend on what would be rational for societies to choose.

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    • 1.Moral standards are the output of a decision procedure that takes into account the needs and values of society and facts about society's circumstances.
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    • 2.What a rational society would choose constitutes moral truth.
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    • 1.Moral realists like Parfit argue that some moral truths (e.g., gratuitous cruelty is wrong) hold independently of any rational choice procedure.
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    • 2.If a rational society chose to endorse gratuitous cruelty, constructivism implies this would be morally true, yielding an intolerable conclusion.
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    • 3.A metaethical theory that cannot rule out such outcomes lacks the action-guiding authority moral standards are supposed to possess.
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    • 1.Rational choice procedures presuppose prior normative standards (e.g., what counts as 'rational'), making the construction circular.
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    • 2.If moral truth is grounded in rationality, rationality itself must be grounded in something non-constructed, undermining the constructivist foundation.
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    Society-based constructivism – elaborated by David Copp, holds that there are true moral standards, which are the output of a decision procedure that takes into account the needs and values of the society and facts about the society’s circumstances (Copp 1995, 2007). Accordingly, the theory accounts for moral truth as depending on what would be rational for societies to choose. Copp’s view shares some important features with Kantian constructivism. First, society-based constructivism holds that
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