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Is morality objective or subjective?

Poll: Is Morality Objective or Subjective?
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Just be good and leave these questions on the nature of morality to philosophers to quarrel on.
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Is morality objective or subjective?
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RE: Is morality objective or subjective?
April 26, 2017 at 5:20 pm
(April 26, 2017 at 3:47 pm)bennyboy Wrote: Obviously, morality is rooted in the social emotions of our apelike animal nature: we love children, so treating children badly is immoral.  We don't like losing resources, so we call stealing of resources immoral.

Grounding morality in evolutionary imperatives would be an example of the genetic fallacy. Being good back in the day doesn't make it good today.
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Is morality objective or subjective? - by SuperSentient - March 18, 2017 at 11:19 pm
RE: Is morality objective or subjective? - by Whateverist - March 18, 2017 at 11:21 pm
RE: Is morality objective or subjective? - by ignoramus - March 19, 2017 at 1:55 am
RE: Is morality objective or subjective? - by Aoi Magi - March 19, 2017 at 4:22 am
RE: Is morality objective or subjective? - by brewer - March 19, 2017 at 9:02 am
RE: Is morality objective or subjective? - by Chad32 - March 19, 2017 at 9:30 am
RE: Is morality objective or subjective? - by Edwardo Piet - March 19, 2017 at 10:45 am
RE: Is morality objective or subjective? - by MysticKnight - March 19, 2017 at 11:35 am
RE: Is morality objective or subjective? - by henryp - March 31, 2017 at 9:27 am
RE: Is morality objective or subjective? - by Angrboda - March 20, 2017 at 9:17 am
RE: Is morality objective or subjective? - by Jesster - March 19, 2017 at 11:33 am
RE: Is morality objective or subjective? - by Chad32 - March 19, 2017 at 3:48 pm
RE: Is morality objective or subjective? - by Nanny - March 31, 2017 at 8:56 pm
RE: Is morality objective or subjective? - by MysticKnight - March 19, 2017 at 10:40 am
RE: Is morality objective or subjective? - by LastPoet - March 19, 2017 at 2:17 pm
RE: Is morality objective or subjective? - by Nanny - April 26, 2017 at 10:20 am
RE: Is morality objective or subjective? - by henryp - April 26, 2017 at 12:16 pm
RE: Is morality objective or subjective? - by Whateverist - April 26, 2017 at 12:21 pm
RE: Is morality objective or subjective? - by Nanny - April 26, 2017 at 2:41 pm
RE: Is morality objective or subjective? - by Whateverist - April 26, 2017 at 12:15 pm
RE: Is morality objective or subjective? - by brewer - April 26, 2017 at 12:16 pm
RE: Is morality objective or subjective? - by Rev. Rye - April 26, 2017 at 1:25 pm
RE: Is morality objective or subjective? - by bennyboy - April 26, 2017 at 3:47 pm
RE: Is morality objective or subjective? - by Neo-Scholastic - April 26, 2017 at 5:20 pm
RE: Is morality objective or subjective? - by Nanny - April 26, 2017 at 6:26 pm
RE: Is morality objective or subjective? - by bennyboy - April 26, 2017 at 7:25 pm
RE: Is morality objective or subjective? - by Simon Moon - April 26, 2017 at 9:00 pm
RE: Is morality objective or subjective? - by Whateverist - April 26, 2017 at 11:30 pm
RE: Is morality objective or subjective? - by bennyboy - April 27, 2017 at 12:00 am
RE: Is morality objective or subjective? - by Whateverist - April 27, 2017 at 11:56 am
RE: Is morality objective or subjective? - by bennyboy - April 27, 2017 at 2:52 pm
RE: Is morality objective or subjective? - by bennyboy - May 15, 2017 at 10:30 pm
RE: Is morality objective or subjective? - by bennyboy - May 18, 2017 at 6:04 pm
RE: Is morality objective or subjective? - by Amarok - May 18, 2017 at 2:32 pm

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