Subjective Morality?

[RoadRunner79]

Hey all,

New user here, I thought this to be a good resource for a layman's morality question:

Whats the deal with Subjective Morality?

I know subjective morality is in nowadays, but I don't really understand how it's functional. Isn't the purpose of morality to rationally distinguish between good and bad actions? Can subjective morality do that, or are people defining things differently?


Thanks, any insight appreciated,
Mikolaj

No it can't.  Subjective morality is relative and dependent on the person.  You can have contradictory moralities and call them both moral, because they have a different basis for that morality.  Objective morality is independent of the person, and says what is right or wrong regardless of who is involved, or what they say.   

Atheists or more specifically materialists, can't account for an objective moral realism.   So they say morality is subjective, although all most everyone acts as if it is objective anywhere else.   They also seem to confuse a lot what morality is (objective vs subjective) with how we know or what we say is moral.  I hope this helps make sense of some of the comments.   A lot of times people are defining (talking) about different things, and don't really understand the argument (in my experience).