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Indeed, we are forced to go much farther.

If goodness and badness lie in attitudes only and hence are brought into being by them, those men who greeted death and misery with childishly merry laughter are taking the only sensible line.

If there is nothing evil in these things, if they get their moral complexion only from our feeling about them, why shouldn't they be greeted with a cheer??

To greet them with repulsion would turn what before was neutral into something bad ; ;

it would needlessly bring badness into the world ; ;

and even on subjectivist assumptions that does not seem very bright.

On the other hand, to greet them with delight would convert what before was neutral into something good ; ;

it would bring goodness into the world.