RE: Can somebody give me a good argument in favor of objective morality?
March 14, 2018 at 4:46 pm
(March 14, 2018 at 3:38 pm)bennyboy Wrote: The idea of subjectivism and objectivism being mutually exclusive and polar opposites is dead, no? Isn't subjective moralism that collection of ideas which a few billion brains have ground through in their constant interaction with their environments, i.e. isn't it just a class of objective function over the population?
Khemikal, my answer is kind of what I'd expect from you: that one is really just a label for our experience of the other, but has no existential meaning at all. Or is this what you're saying?
Sure, I think we could call the totality of moral ideas held by people, without any investigation of any of them, the collective subjective moral set. The objective subset, if there were one, would be those opinions on some matter x that conforms or corresponds to a statement that met those earlier requirements in thread.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
