Pionart
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Reality...now the question is...whats reality
Everything is reality. Or reality is what everyone can observe as being there (to exclude "subjective realities" such as the imagination).
So, by the latter approach, we could not say that something is good or bad in reality because that is not necessarily something everyone could observe, however could be termed true by consensus. So, objective good and bad is just what people have a consensus as being good or bad, such as pain. Pain can be objectively inferred, and is something organisms naturally flee from. So when good or bad or discussed, it would be in reference to things which organisms, in particular humans, will naturally flee from such as pain and death. Good, however, would have less objectivity to it, since people vary in their tastes, however there are probably still certain outcomes that pretty much anyone would be happy with.
I suspect that the Fe approach to ethics would be along this vein; ethical judgments are based on how the effect would be seen by a typical person, whereas with Fi it would be based on subjective criteria. So, starvation would be bad by Fe, because it produces pain and lower functioning in the body, but a particular Fi user may value starvation as part of fasting for a religious ritual that they value and so see the goodness in the hunger as a means towards spiritual ideals.