(March 1, 2016 at 8:49 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote: Hmm...okay, I see your point. So, we could consider each individual's genetically expressed tendencies as objective for that specific person?I'm not sure I'd call individual differences morality. So while we each have our individual mores, I'd say that morality is more about cultural or species norms.
There are certain behaviors that are clearly mediated by instinct and for the most part are uniform across culture and time. A mother not taking care of her baby, for example, would be seen as immoral in probably every culture-- or it would be a short-lived culture, indeed. Even though some mothers in fact do not take care of babies, or some cultures have cases in which particular babies are discarded cruelly, I'd say that child-rearing rules might be said to represent an objective morality.