(March 13, 2016 at 5:33 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: I can say "rape is evil"... that's objective because it is fact.*emphasis is mine*
Is it though? I'm sure we can both agree that we find it deplorable, as do most people, but that neither makes it a fact or objective. To say such a thing I'd need to know if rape is evil outside of the human experience. Would other races of comparable or higher intelligence find it evil? Is rape evil regardless of sentient species?
Really, those questions are beside the point, because what the hell does "objective morality" even mean? How would we begin to know what that was without our conclusions being tainted by our opinions? Where does it come from? If it's from a god, are the things in opposition to his moral laws evil because he says they are or because of some morality outside even his control?