(October 2, 2018 at 8:12 am)polymath257 Wrote:(October 1, 2018 at 9:11 pm)RoadRunner79 Wrote: The argument isn't that people have moral feelings. If they are just subjective feelings selected of a just so story, then there is no right and wrong, and morality could be entirely different. The social conventions of those who believe black people are lesser humans and should be slaves, or that the unborn may be killed, or societal conventions of Nazi Germany is no more moral or immoral than a society that cares for the poor, and who believe in not harming another. You can't call another society immoral and stay consistent within this framework. I find that very few people can act as if morality is subjective, and those who do, we call sociopaths and question their mental health. Under what you defined here, rape could be considered moral, as long as those who are preyed upon, don't interfere by killing the attacker or the child. I can't agree to that. I think that you can measure a society or a person as being more or less moral. That it's not just based on the feelings or emotions, and that one that does have feelings that tend towards immorality are immoral.
Once again, there are many shared values because we *evolved* to have those values because they work for survival. That is the only sense in which they are objective.
How did you come to that conclusion? Do you think that there is anything really wrong, with a man beating his wife to make himself feel tough?
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