RE: Veganism
March 23, 2026 at 1:54 am
(This post was last modified: March 23, 2026 at 1:55 am by Thumpalumpacus.)
Moral apprehension is a matter of individual thought. Assigning it to some god or some objective outlier is, to me, the abdication of the moral authority of the individual in question.
If you do something because someone tells you it's Right®, or avoid doing something because someone tells you it's wrong, you're resigning the requirement to think for yourself. At that point you're not a moral agent, you're an amoral accessory. So if morality is objective and you do something because it's "objectively" right, are you being moral at all? Or are you goosestepping your way through the day?
I think the idea of an objective morality is a convenient way to offshore thinking.
If you do something because someone tells you it's Right®, or avoid doing something because someone tells you it's wrong, you're resigning the requirement to think for yourself. At that point you're not a moral agent, you're an amoral accessory. So if morality is objective and you do something because it's "objectively" right, are you being moral at all? Or are you goosestepping your way through the day?
I think the idea of an objective morality is a convenient way to offshore thinking.
