(August 20, 2013 at 10:24 pm)Chas Wrote:discipulus Wrote: Is this not cultural relativism?
No, it's memetic evolution. And convergent evolution is evident in the large agreement of basic moral judgements across diverse cultures.
And these convergent ideas may or may not be objective morality.
The word objective morality seems pretty shady. Show me an example of any objective morality and I can probably show you a group who contradicts that.
Morality is messy ugly business usually being decided and enforced by the small few in power in any given time or place. Often in the worlds history it was the group with the most swords/guns/ect...
While I can decide locally and internally what moral code I will live by I surely do not dictate that to others even if I try. It takes the power of culture and the group to really shape morality and we undoubtedly do not live at least sociologically in the US like our puritanical ancestors did a while back. I personally have not been to a witch burning or tossing someone in a bag with a wild animal and into a river...
Morality is ugly messy business. Ethically I am opposed to morality.
