(June 13, 2013 at 2:47 am)Gilgamesh Wrote: Empathy doesn't necessarily have anything to do with morality, although it can.
I agree with you, though. All morality is subjective and anyone who agrees with that statement can only be a moral nihilist. Not sure why people are so afraid of that label.
Fair point. I am not sure how empathy, love and morality relate together but they do all seem to be features of the human condition..
I am also not sure accepting morality as relative makes you a nihilist. Almost everything in our lives is relative (art, architecture, music, toaster ovens..) yet we can assess and assign values to them relative to alternatives of their ilk.