(November 20, 2016 at 3:31 am)robvalue Wrote:(November 19, 2016 at 8:29 pm)Maelstrom Wrote: The moral authority seems to be what the majority believes and accepts.
Nice. That is the closest I think we can get. It's what makes objective morality wielding theists recoil in horror, at the idea that humans could "decide" morality.
In the case of a dictatorship, you could have "imposed morality", but laws are not morals. So the actual morality of the people may be very different. Same with someone in a cult against their will, although in both cases here people may simply be brainwashed.
Well, I'm not sure that's what makes anyone recoil in horror. That humans can "decide" morality is a fact of history. That humans often "decide" poorly, is also a fact of history. That there is really something about which those decisions are made is the actual question. If there is a real something, then decisions can either be better or worse, and a common rational appeal to that real spectrum can be made and spoken about between the majority and the minority. If there is not a real something, then "better" or "worse" is artificially determined by the majority, with no rational appeal accessible by the minority. Tends to suck for the minority.
