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Originally Posted by PKFFW
What I mean by absolute wrong is a wrong that would be considered wrong in any normal human beings moral code. By "normal human being" I simply mean someone who is not mentally disturbed, intellectually incapable of reasoning, that sort of thing. I don't mean "anyone who is different to me isn't normal" or anything like that.
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So it is a psychological concept (I have read it as a moral theory concept in this thread). In that case it is obvious a moral theory cannot give any firm conclusion about what all "normal" people will think. Also moral theory cannot be based on the intuition people have since you cannot go from is to ought.
In you example there could have been the case that all that was killed was going to cause a lot of suffering and that the optimal things to happen was what happened. Of course this is not very probable but a consequence ethics theory (utilitarian theory) allows for this possibility.