T.K. posits that moral realism is a subset of realism and that moral facts exist in the same way physical objects like rocks or mountains exist.

“I defined it as a subset of realism, right? In the same way that rocks and mountains exist, uh I believe that moral facts exist.”

A loss of shared moral understanding in society has left individuals, particularly younger generations, struggling to process moral dilemmas.

“And so we've rendered generations left, right, and center morally inarticulate. And so they just don't have the language to process why electing a guy like Trump, why that might be wrong, why that might be a foolish thing to do, or even to process their own moral formation”

Concepts such as fairness and justice emerge from reciprocal altruism as a means to evaluate the balance between costs inflicted and benefits received during cooperative exchanges.

“and those words fair and just and so on i felt actually emerged from reciprocal altruism precisely because they evaluated uh the costs uh inflicted versus the benefits received”

Eating human flesh is not inherently a moral quandary if the person was not killed for the purpose and provided permission.

“The moral problem with eating humans is that you theoretically have to kill a human in order to eat them if there is human flesh that gets to exist and no longer is alive and is otherwise just going to turn into compost and dust I don't think there's a moral question about whether it's wrong to eat ”

Moral theories are useful tools to understand why one feels a certain way about issues or decisions.

“I do think these moral theories help us figure out why we feel the way we do about certain issues and why we make some of the decisions we do I don't think it's so much about making them it's figuring out why we feel the way we do about them”