RE: My views on objective morality
March 16, 2016 at 10:38 am
(This post was last modified: March 16, 2016 at 10:41 am by robvalue.)
One more before I shut my stupid mouth:
A significant number of people go around killing others and blowing themselves up because they base their morality on what they think god wants them to do. According to them, doing this stuff is moral. This is completely at odds with what you would probably want to call objective morality. So you have to call them "wrong". But they would also call you "wrong". If morality is objective, one of you is actually, objectively wrong. How do we determine which, without appealing to anyone's point of view?
We can tell who is "wrong" about hair colour by going ahead and testing it ourselves, using the proper agreed method. But if they make up their own way of measuring hair colour, by which they are right, then there is no useful comparison to be had. All we can compare is how useful the two systems may be.
A significant number of people go around killing others and blowing themselves up because they base their morality on what they think god wants them to do. According to them, doing this stuff is moral. This is completely at odds with what you would probably want to call objective morality. So you have to call them "wrong". But they would also call you "wrong". If morality is objective, one of you is actually, objectively wrong. How do we determine which, without appealing to anyone's point of view?
We can tell who is "wrong" about hair colour by going ahead and testing it ourselves, using the proper agreed method. But if they make up their own way of measuring hair colour, by which they are right, then there is no useful comparison to be had. All we can compare is how useful the two systems may be.
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