Quote: Ok, so you are admitting to objective morality? Ie, it is a FACT that you OUGHT not harm others?
Not a bit of it. I'm saying that the moral stricture to not harm other people is not the same as a disagreement over which foods are tasty. If you'd read a biut more carefully, I'm also saying that all moral strictures are variable as relates to time, place and other factors. If morality was objective, the Roman matron I mentioned earlier would have been aghast at the thought of leaving her newborn on a rubbish tip.
Quote:So you saying we have improved morally? If so, this admits to objective morality.
*chuckle* Again, I'm not saying anything of the sort (although I grasp how much you want me to). I'm saying that you and I who recoil in horror at the thought of the torture and rape of the little girl you mentioned are neither more or less moral than a person from a society where such an act is viewed as moral. We are moral in our societal matrix, they are moral in theirs.
Has it occurred to you that, if morality were indeed objective, it couldn't in anywise be 'improved'?
Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
