Ideology so distorts our thinking that consensus is impossible

  Ideology so distorts our thinking that consensus is very hard to come by if not impossible. (This is how Marx’s would have it

Yet  ‘hot cognition’ and  the existence of ‘hot’ mechanisms for the formation of one's beliefs does not derogate from their status as beliefs. I

There are two possible explanations for this fact: 1) the realist  explanation that non-natural properties of goodness and badness somehow impinge upon us, giving rise to moral beliefs, which, in turn, give rise to desires, and eventually to action; and the emotivist explanation that when it comes to ends, moral judgements somehow embody desires and impulses, and hence give rise to action. 

The Occom razor argument a more economical, and hence more clean shaven -

 ‘the emotions of approval and disapproval do not enter into the meaning of the proposition “M is good;

Aesthetico-moral judgements may just be interpretations