"Moral antirealists such as Timmons, Horgan, and Richard Joyce agree that a moral antirealist position should not be so revisionary as to recommend that we cease to engage in moral discourse. According to these philosophers, such a recommendation would be fruitless, for moral concepts are so deeply entrenched in ordinary discourse that we couldn't jettison them even if we tried." (Cuneo 106)
Hogwash. Right now there are buses and billboards advertising against the once deeply entrenched philosophical position that God exists. If you're an antirealist you can't wuss out at the last step. Belief that some people are evil leads to an untold amount of death every year. How many wars have been fought over the mistaken belief that the enemy was evil? Why, think of all the German lives that could have been saved in World War II if people didn't believe that there was an objective good and evil!
(Or else, isn't morality a companion in guilt to religion?)
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