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Morality quiz, and objective moralities
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RE: Morality quiz, and objective moralities
Sure, I'm not talking about literal existence. I'm talking about an abstract idea.

For example, this could be moral code A: "Try and kill everyone you see."

Now, anyone who uses moral code A will have exactly the same set of instructions. It's not dependent on their opinion. It's objective, in that sense. It's a code anyone could try to follow. Of course, how they interpret it and how they go about it will be entirely subjective. And it's woefully incomplete, because it doesn't tell you how to act when you don't see any people.

All I'm really saying is that people can agree on sets of underlying principles, and the principles themselves can be objective while their application is not.

This stands in contradiction to the idea that there is just one "objective morality". It's a nonsense statement.

PS: Thanks for taking the quiz, Evie! Smile I would expect most people to end up with the same result although they may take a redundant "what God wants" branch on the way there. If anyone strays further than this, I'd be interested.

And when people generally say "objective morality", what they mean is the best possible morality. But "best" is entirely subjective. That is the problem.
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Morality quiz, and objective moralities - by robvalue - January 28, 2016 at 3:02 pm
RE: Morality quiz, and objective moralities - by Angrboda - January 28, 2016 at 4:29 pm
RE: Morality quiz, and objective moralities - by robvalue - January 29, 2016 at 4:39 am
RE: Morality quiz, and objective moralities - by Edwardo Piet - January 29, 2016 at 10:19 am
RE: Morality quiz, and objective moralities - by Edwardo Piet - January 29, 2016 at 10:26 am
RE: Morality quiz, and objective moralities - by robvalue - January 30, 2016 at 4:33 am
RE: Morality quiz, and objective moralities - by robvalue - January 30, 2016 at 5:40 am
RE: Morality quiz, and objective moralities - by Mudhammam - January 30, 2016 at 5:45 am
RE: Morality quiz, and objective moralities - by Pizza - January 30, 2016 at 6:09 am
RE: Morality quiz, and objective moralities - by Mudhammam - January 30, 2016 at 3:12 pm
RE: Morality quiz, and objective moralities - by robvalue - January 30, 2016 at 10:52 am
RE: Morality quiz, and objective moralities - by robvalue - January 31, 2016 at 7:15 am

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