RE: morality is subjective and people don't have free will
May 15, 2017 at 4:40 pm
(This post was last modified: May 15, 2017 at 4:41 pm by Aroura.)
(May 15, 2017 at 4:24 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(May 15, 2017 at 4:09 pm)mh.brewer Wrote:
If morals have grey areas then they are not objective/absolute.
By that, I just mean they are dependent on circumstances, but that they are still objective within those circumstances.
Example:
The morality of yelling at someone is a grey area.
It is objectively wrong to yell at a random person simply because you are having a bad day and need someone to take your anger out on, even though the person has nothing to do with why you are upset.
It is objectively not wrong to yell at someone you just caught abusing your child.
Here is the problem, you and I and 99% of people might agree right now, today, that it is wrong to yell at a random person because you are having a bad day (again, my sincerest apologies about that), but that does not make it objectively wrong.
Under some circumstance, at some point in history, I'm sure that most people would have agreed it was acceptable.
For instance, what if the person yelling at you has autism? Like severe autism, but they are still an adult.
Would you still call it objectively wrong for them to yell at a stranger because they are upset? Or is it suddenly more understandable, and therefore more acceptable, with that one little change?
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