RE: Is it true that there is no absolute morality?
February 16, 2017 at 11:29 pm
(This post was last modified: February 16, 2017 at 11:34 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
There's an easy thought experiment that anyone can do, to work out for themselves, why their moral judgements..whatever they are (regardless of whether or not they're "right or wrong", aren't arbitrary in any meaningful sense. Think of some easy thing that you consider to be categorically wrong. Abducting a child in order to carve out it's eyes to see what they taste like in a martini.
Did you choose to consider that wrong? Can you choose to consider it right? Do you have any control over how you feel about it's "wrongness"? If you can't answer yes to these questions, we're not discussing something arbitrary...whatever else it may be.
Did you choose to consider that wrong? Can you choose to consider it right? Do you have any control over how you feel about it's "wrongness"? If you can't answer yes to these questions, we're not discussing something arbitrary...whatever else it may be.
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