https://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/forums/8.aspxDiscussion of political theory.enCommunityServer 2008.5 SP2 (Build: 40407.4157)https://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/forums/thread/9797.aspxTue, 15 Jan 2008 14:28:42 GMT944abf2b-d1be-4bf2-990d-438cb0e377e9:9797Beaners0https://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/forums/thread/9797.aspxhttps://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=8&PostID=9797While I don&#39;t know if this is the right forum for this, I stumbled upon a short argument of David D. Friedman regarding normative propositions (http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Libertarian/My_Posts/My_View_of_Oughts.html). He argues that morality can be perceived through some kind of &#39;6th sense&#39; like hearing a sound or seeing an elephant and that most people would agree on certain simple cases like &#39;having fun while torturing small children is bad&#39; without being able to tell you why exactly this is should be an objective truth. So I was wondering if there is any data about a survey on this topic where one can see that people tend to agree on simple cases and disagree on more difficult ones (like people would agree that there is a computer I&#39;m writing on, but not always agreed that the earth was rotating around the sun, simply because it was not as obvious). This argument isn&#39;t new of course, but while wrinting a paper for philosophical class about objectivism this question plopped in my mind.<div style="clear:both;"></div>