Subjective Morals and Societal Whims

[Zenith]

Morality is subjective.  Yes, that means people can argue pedophilia and even murder aren't wrong.  But if morality were objective, everyone would agree on the same fucking morality.  But you don't even see that within people of the same fucking religion.

Thank fuck it is, because if morality were unchanging we'd still have slavery, still stone homosexuals to death, and still burn people who we think are 'witches'.  So thank fuck morality is subjective.

There is, however, something about morality that we (human beings) continue to improve upon: As the times passes, science develops, our knowledge and understanding about human beings increases, we learn better about the effects of our actions upon our brethren. Human beings do not normally desire to do harm to their own brethren, and nature also endowed us with empathy (which is not human-only). And more, we realise that, since we live together in large communities, it profits us best if we also tend to our community, not only to our own individual needs - that's how societies formed in the first place. All these, I believe, make us moral people.