(January 11, 2016 at 6:22 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote:(January 11, 2016 at 6:20 pm)Kingpin Wrote: Just because humans put their own subjective value to life (all forms) does not negate the validity of inherent and objective value.
It doesn't negate it, nor does pointing this out establish it. What is your point here?
It seemed the point was trying to be made that humans place subjective value to life and as such objective value does not exist and I was merely pointing out that subjective value is not sufficient in proving there is no objective value. Some arguments I would use for reasons to reliably believe in objective value:
- Nearly universally across human cultures, arguably, there exists the same basic standards of morality. In addition, there exists in all cultures truly altruistic acts which lead to no genetic benefit.
- The majority of people who explicitly deny the existence of objective morality still act as if objective morality exists.
- There exists a nearly universal human intuition that certain things are objectively right or wrong.
- The majority of philosophers recognize the existence of objective moral facts.
We are not made happy by what we acquire but by what we appreciate.
