(July 2, 2016 at 10:02 pm)SteveII Wrote:(July 2, 2016 at 2:47 pm)Veritas_Vincit Wrote: 'Objective morality' doesn't exist abstract from humans, it is a social construct. I don't see how that makes it any less valid or valuable. Morality is meaningless without conscious creatures as it concerns their wellbeing and suffering.
It's less valuable because it is subjective.
This brings up a question. How do you justify your moral indignation for slavery in the OT times? If morality is a social construct and society decided it was a benefit in ages past, who are you to judge it now? It seems to me on your view, morality is rooted in habit, custom, feeling and/or fashion--nothing objective about those.
It's not a question of whether or not older civilizations thought slavery was moral. Slavery probably seemed like a good idea to the ruling classes of those times but we now know how harmful it is, not just from a moral standpoint but an economic standpoint as well. The question is why didn't god know, why did he endorse slavery? Your answer seems to be, well people needed to realize the mistake on their own, which in my opinion completely ignores the slaves point of view. If slave owners where really interested in knowing whether slavery was morally wrong all they had to do was ask a slave how they felt about it.
