Assertion: morality's nothing | /r/HasProperty | bad
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text: 25 Theological theories have been omitted (ethics is objectively based on divine authority), 26 and a more refined discussion of secular theories would include ideal observer theories (ethics define what some "ideal" observer would assert were he to exist), 27 ethical nihilism (nothing is really good or bad, moral or immoral), ethical skepticism (no criteria of ethics will ever be justified), ethical egoism (ethics is simply that which maximizes one's own interest), ethical hedonism (ethics is what maximizes one's own pleasure), deontological intuitionism (some behavior is morally and intrinsically our duty, regardless of the consequences), and natural law ethics (there are a few basic, objective principles of ethics, self-evident to reason).
text: Even if nothing is good or bad, believing that pain is bad might increase my motivation to avoid pain and so lead me to survive longer.