... case I am stating that the goodness of the fruit is relative to the consumer; or am I suggesting that the fruit is good in an absolute manner, that whatever the circumstances are of the consumer, or indeed the item of fruit concerned, the fruit is by very nature of its status of fruit good based on an independent, external value system. Am I recommending that people should all go out and stock up on fruit, or am I only expressing my own personal enjoyment in fruit. However this is slightly more complicated than it may seem, and it is the complexity of meta-ethics that is also its downfall. Where this becomes complicated is with the fact that people talk about goodness, not simply in moral terms, but also in an amoral sense. The goodness expressed in a non-moral sense, i.e. the aesthetic goodness of a painting, is not the ...

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