Subjective Morality?

[TwoCultSurvivor]

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

Responding to the OP; haven't read the thread:

In my opinion, morality is a system of value judgments, and value judgments are subjective by definition.

All morality is subjective.

However, we can BASE morality on objective criteria. We can ask ourselves a series of questions about the motivations and effects of particular actions and determine, based on the answers, whether those actions are moral.

As such, we may not alway AGREE on what is and is not moral, but we will agree on the objective bases for making that determination.

But there is no such thing as "objective morality." If there were, we would be able to define it easily (and lest someone claim that Judeo-Christian theism offers such a definition, we need only remind them that their God found time to ban shellfish but not slavery).