RE: Can somebody give me a good argument in favor of objective morality?
March 14, 2018 at 2:14 pm
(This post was last modified: March 14, 2018 at 2:23 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Sure they are. If we contend that minorities are subhuman and that this provided the moral justification (or absolution) required to keep them in bondage...and it turned out they weren't subhuman after all.....then the purported moral fact would be falsified.
An objective morality is not and cannot be absolute, so that's not a problem. If for any given x y is the reason that it is wrong..that same x could happen in circumstances other than y and -not- be wrong. Conversely, the thing x is not absolutely wrong, it is objectively wrong.
(the above is fundamental to our understanding of murder and killing, for example)
An objective morality is not and cannot be absolute, so that's not a problem. If for any given x y is the reason that it is wrong..that same x could happen in circumstances other than y and -not- be wrong. Conversely, the thing x is not absolutely wrong, it is objectively wrong.
(the above is fundamental to our understanding of murder and killing, for example)
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