(September 5, 2018 at 12:15 pm)Abaddon_ire Wrote:(September 5, 2018 at 11:57 am)Anomalocaris Wrote: 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.
What Neo is talking about, and what I was talking about, was the ontology or nature of morality; not how you know what is moral. When you are talking about "objective assessments" you are talking about something else.
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