Subjective Morality?

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You’re recognising what matches up with the moral framework you already have; or just interpreting the text so that it reflects your own moral framework. This isn’t the least bit objective.

Subjective doesn’t necessarily mean making things up. That would be called arbitrary, or something like that. Subjective means you get different results depending on who is doing the assessing. And clearly, people get very different results, even when they’re in the same religion.

Objective means you get the same result no matter who does the assessing, according to a precisely defined method.

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PS: Well, words are just words. If when MK says objective he means what we would call subjective but not arbitrary, then that’s fair enough. I’ll use whatever definitions people want for the purposes of a discussion, as long as they stick to them.

But he should also recognise that he actually agrees morality isn’t objective according to the general definition of the word.