RE: General question about the possibility of objective moral truth
September 13, 2015 at 1:55 am
(September 12, 2015 at 9:52 pm)Michael Wald Wrote: Now I would like to ask: Is from an atheistic point of view a moral conviction like "killing of people is morally wrong" an objective fact? Or is it a social convention, which means it is a subjective view?
It is a fact that there is a huge amount of consensus regarding the unacceptability of murder. Of course, what ever standing you or I may give it, the psychopathic killer doesn't care. But I don't think objective morality is entirely coherent.