Not A Poll: Does Motivation Affect Morality?

[Edwardo Piet]

Even if you where able to look at each moral dilemma objectively, testing the amount of harm each decision causes doesn't tell the whole story.

I don't think it has to. I mean, I am talking about objective in the sense of unbiased and using health as an analogy. We don't know the whole story about health either, does that make sense? Do you see where I am going with this?

Also, Even if you came to the conclusion that one thing causes more harm, how does that change anyone else's morality?

I don't think it has to... Um, I mean look at health again. You know, like with health some things are objectively healthy without convincing people right?

I think of the old hypothetical, would you kill one child to save a million people? This is very easy to test for objectively, obviously killing the child is less harm so we could easily deem that the moral choice. The problem is, it doesn't make it so, the people who believe it is immoral to kill that child are still going to believe that it is immoral.

Yeah but that's about universal morality. We don't need that for objectivity, I think. Like ummm.. Do we need it for health?