(October 15, 2018 at 12:13 pm)robvalue Wrote: If you choose a book, and base your morality on that book, then that’s just as subjective as anything else. It’s also circular. Your only justification for why something is good is that the book says it is good. If you have any other justification than that, then you clearly have moral standards external to the book.
The book itself has objective text (although certainly not objective interpretations), but there are an infinite number of possible texts or fixed rules you could base your morality on. Everyone picks their own, in whatever way they think is best. I prefer to think things through and decide for myself.
And sometimes the books are wrong.
There was a bible published that left out the word not in one of the ten commandments.
It said thou shalt commit adultary...
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.
