RE: Objective Morals+
March 12, 2013 at 4:34 pm
(This post was last modified: March 12, 2013 at 4:37 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(March 12, 2013 at 8:07 am)John V Wrote: Always amazes me when people argue that all morality is subjective, but then argue that their own morality is superior. Can't have your cake and eat it too.I'm not clear on why you think that morality cannot be both subjective, and superior. I wouldn't call it easy, but a reasoned discussion can usually root it out when this i the case. Say two people have opposing moralities, but one party agrees (in the course of this discussion) to a number of principles that inform some conclusion on a moral issue that is held by their "opponent". In this case, according only to the agreement between them in the conversation (regardless of whether or not the person is willing to change their stance in light of this) his "opponent has demonstrated that his moral stance is superior to the stance of his adversary in that it is consistent and agree upon by both - but for some odd fucking reason (say "godwillsit") the other guy makes a hard left turn at 90 and reaches a conclusion utterly alien to everything that preceded it.
Or, say both parties hold the same opinion on some moral issue, but the justification behind one is "magic" whereas the other is well reasoned and well supported. Again, subjective, but superior. Of course, without any agreement in some area it's all going to be subjective between them (even if it isn't).
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