In the end I see Mackie saying that there are no morally good people, however it is only because there are no morally good or bad people. Mackie's argument on queerness is divided into two fixed points. The first point, the argument being metaphysical, is that objective values would be radically different from anything in our experience; “If objective values existed, then they would be entities, qualities, or relationships of a very strange kind, completely different from anything else in the universe. And the second point, stated as an epistemological argument, is that there would be no way to know these strange things without a special, non-empirical means of knowing them (intuition). Through this argument it seems that Mackie is telling us that objective moral facts should create the drive in us to do whatever we are driven to do, however morality cannot make us do anything on its own and therefore leads Mackie to conclude with the idea that in reality there is no such thing as morality
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