RE: Responding to "Homosexuality is wrong, the same way incest is wrong"
February 7, 2016 at 4:42 am
(This post was last modified: February 7, 2016 at 4:47 am by robvalue.)
I totally agree. Morality is subjective. Nothing is inherently right or wrong. It doesn't mean anything. They are value judgements, and as such, need a thinking agent to make the judgement.
Some people are tremendously uncomfortable with this, so much so that they pretend it's simply not true. But putting forward an arbitrary, subjective load of rules and calling that objective morality is nothing more than a person's own subjective morality, with an implication that they won't ever develop it.
We have to at least agree on what goals we want to work towards, before we can give any meaning to "right" and "wrong".
Some people are tremendously uncomfortable with this, so much so that they pretend it's simply not true. But putting forward an arbitrary, subjective load of rules and calling that objective morality is nothing more than a person's own subjective morality, with an implication that they won't ever develop it.
We have to at least agree on what goals we want to work towards, before we can give any meaning to "right" and "wrong".
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