(October 4, 2014 at 7:38 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: I don't think you can believe something is morally wrong without believing it's objectively wrong to do so. You can't also give value to life without believing objectively there is value to life.
I'm willing to give up believing any action is morally wrong and rely instead on an agreed upon system of justice to enforce actions we condemn even in the absence of an action being objectively wrong. I'll settle for it being collectively unacceptable.
On the (very) long view, no one life amounts to all that much. But our own life literally means the world to us, and a natural concern for reciprocity is usually enough reason for most people to grant that all lives are sacrosanct. It doesn't really matter if they have some divine value tag on them. What matters is the way we are willing to barter with them, understanding as we do the value of one life .. our own.
