Evil

[robvalue]

Well yes, if we discount free will then morality is an entirely redundant subject. As is everything, pretty much.

I worry again that the idea of studying the way someone interacts with others (which is objectively measurable) is being conflated with each person's judgement of what is moral and immoral. Each objective action will have a different, subjective "morality rating" for any given observer.

We can't measure morality in the same way we measure mass, because morality is an abstract concept. We need to properly define what the goal of morality is, and how it is evaluated, before we can take subjective ratings. We can have one observer with one standard rating a whole bunch of activities of other people, or we can have a whole bunch of people with different standards rating the same activity. These are not the same. The idea that there is one "correct" value system seems like a contradiction in terms to me. Correct according to who or what?