(September 5, 2018 at 11:57 am)Anomalocaris Wrote:(September 5, 2018 at 11:50 am)RoadRunner79 Wrote: I think that the answer is that morality is subjective until you call someone by the wrong pronoun, or refuse to bake a cake. And testimony is not evidence, until a rather shady character, testified under pressure against a president that you don’t like.
Morality is subjective. That doesn’t mean some subjective morality can’t through the mechanism adopted by a society to regulate itself be imposed also upon those who disagree.
Think of it this way, even though our morality is technically subjective, if you behave in some ways that you might think is not inconsistent with its being subjective, we will hang you. Got it?
No, not really.
Morality is based on something, some subjective baseline. Once the baseline is agreed, OBJECTIVE assessments can be made as to morality with regard to that baseline.
So what is the baseline subjectively? The bible? The Koran? Gilgamesh? All of those would have us butchering each other. With the imprimatur of whichever deity.