RE: Is there objective Truth?
October 24, 2016 at 1:58 pm
(This post was last modified: October 24, 2016 at 1:59 pm by Whateverist.)
(October 24, 2016 at 1:32 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote:(October 24, 2016 at 1:23 pm)Astreja Wrote: Well, I for one do not think that there is such a thing as "objective moral values." In fact, I think that it's a contradiction in terms and that "moral values" are always subjective.
Indeed morality is a very fluid thing. In some parts of the world it is the moral thing to do to kill your daughter for marrying for love and not giving in the to her dads demand for her to marry a fat fifty year old. And of course in Christianity it used to be moral to torture people back to the path of Christ "for their own good".
When I morally condemn the person who has just killed my loved one, I am not so much applying an objective definition as I am vowing to heap as much retribution on his sorry ass as I the legal system and my own ingenuity will allow.
