(August 25, 2011 at 10:22 am)Rhythm Wrote: All humor aside, I have a strong suspicion that any definition of objective morality would be unsatisfactory to us. There isn't much about a human being (if anything at all) that isn't goal driven. I personally can't say anything about the subject. I offer up the great and powerful "I have no idea".
I certainly don't know either Rhythm, but the topic has always interested me because most everyone has some kind of very basic sense of what is right and wrong - regardless of how another society views those same perceptions. It makes me think that somewhere, there lies a platform (however small it may be) for morality that resides in the genetic makeup of all humans. Besides, somebody's got to play Devil's advocate - otherwise, we would have no debate - and that's no fun.