Emotivism, on the other hand, is like subjectivism in the sense that it teaches that there are no objective moral facts, and that therefore 'murder is wrong' can't be objectively true but Emotivists teach that moral statements are meaningless. This means that the first half of the statement 'it was wrong to murder Fred' adds nothing to the non-moral information that Fred has been murdered. Moral statements only express the speaker's feelings about the issue. Later emotivists added this idea to Emotivism: By expressing the speaker's feelings about a moral issue moral statements may influence another person's thoughts and conduct.
People can have disagreements on just about any subject. But in ethics, disagreements are often emotionally charged or impossible to settle, even when all of the available evidence is considered. Take abortion, for example; In particular, consider cases where abortion is purely elective (not medically necessary) and the pregnancy was not due to unusual or tragic circumstances (i.e. not due to rape, incest); Is abortion in such cases morally wrong? Many people feel very strongly that it is,