(October 15, 2018 at 3:34 pm)mfigurski80 Wrote: ... so how do you evaluate the world/others/actions with a subjective morality?
I spot a chance to chime in with my pet peeve...
A lot of times when people say "objective" they seem to mean "universal and eternal." As if any objective judgment will be the same always and forever. But I don't think that's what "objective" means.
Say for example I assemble a panel of nutritionists to help me plan my diet. They can -- objectively -- figure out what's healthiest for me to eat. But that doesn't mean that it's best for absolutely everyone.
And if new research shows that, contrary to prior theories, chocolate TimTams are in fact the healthiest thing you can eat, then the same nutritionists would have to adjust their objective evaluation to take account of these new findings. (I mention this because I am conducting a long-term experiment on the benefits of chocolate TimTams.)
I think that the nutritionists' decisions will be objective if they are disinterested and unselfish. But they may nonetheless change their minds later, and may even disagree in the present.
Now if people want to debate the (perhaps religious) belief in a universal and eternal set of moral laws, that would be a different subject.