He uses the example of Platonic Forms to illustrate this point. It is not so much an argument as an explanation for why all our moral language talks as if morality were objective. The objectification of morals is a psychological projection that results from societal demands. This comes from the pathetic fallacy , or the human tendency to read our feelings into their objects. Furthermore, our moral attitudes come in part from our society, which imposes its values from the outside.
Objectification is buttressed by the added force that objective morality lends to our moral claims.
It is useful for the social contract if those who live under the contract feel that to break it is objectively wrong and not merely disapproved of by the other members of society. It is for pragmatic reasons that we tend to objectify morality in our speech rather than because an objective morality exists. I will now turn my attention to the second argument, the argument from queerness. Furthermore, the faculty of moral perception would be utterly different from any other human faculty of knowledge. The objectivist counters Mackie s assertion by arguing that the existence of moral entities is not the only option for objectivism.