pop morality

[Chad32]

There are no absolute standards of morality. All morality is "pop morality". As a christian, I would assume you think biblical morality is absolute, but despite many christians being against abortion, the bible is not. There is abortion in the bible. A man can force his wife to drink filth from the floor of an altar room, where blood sacrifices had been made, in case he thinks the baby in his wife's belly isn't his. Not to mention that in the bible the baby doesn't even gain its soul until the first breath of life. Yet somehow some christians today think life begins at conception, and killing a zygote is murder.

Is morality trivial? Depends on who you ask. Any social group needs rules to be able to coexist. These rules differ among groups. Debates rage over what should be considered an inalienable right to all people. Everyone can agree that people need food, and that killing within the group is wrong. But besides the basic fundamentals, it gets a little foggy. Because morality is relative.

I can make arguments against slavery and sex with minors, while another guy can make the opposite claim, and depending on where we are, either one of us can be facing jail time for getting in the other's way.

I make my own morality, that changes over time. I don't blindly accept what others tell me. If I did, I'd still be the racist homophobe that my parents want me to be, and the devout christian that my grandmother wants me to be. I'm in a position to judge because we all make judgement calls everywhere in life. We have to make a decision on what we deem good or bad, and our decisions are judgements.