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morality is subjective and people don't have free will
RE: morality is subjective and people don't have free will
(June 5, 2017 at 9:52 am)Zenith Wrote:
(June 5, 2017 at 9:23 am)Khemikal Wrote: Harmful vs helpful -is- an objective morality.  Just as "more than and less than" is an objective description of two piles of money, even when the size of each pile keeps changing.

No. "Harmful" and "helpful" ARE objective, but they are NOT morality. Morality is about belief, i.e.
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictio...h/morality Wrote:Morality is the belief that some behaviour is right and acceptable and that other behaviour is wrong.

If you ask most people advancing an objective morality, help and harm are the things around which their belief in the goodness or wrongness of a situation is determined.  One of the most vocal advocates for objective morality reduces his entire position to;

"Don't harm, do help".

That's all that's meant by an objective morality. That the moral status of some x could be, in principle, objectively determined. In his case, determined by reference to help and harm. Why is assault bad? Harm. Why is charity good? Help.
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RE: morality is subjective and people don't have free will - by The Grand Nudger - June 5, 2017 at 9:58 am

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