RE: Christians - Should it be legal to own slaves since God approves?
January 30, 2014 at 2:38 pm
(This post was last modified: January 30, 2014 at 2:39 pm by Simon Moon.)
(January 30, 2014 at 1:55 pm)Jacob(smooth) Wrote:(January 30, 2014 at 1:50 pm)truthBtold Wrote: Not objective but subjective morality
Thank you. Subjective as in
"based on or influenced by personal feelings, tastes, or opinions."
Morality concerns the well being of sentient beings. In this sense, it is objective.
It is objectively demonstrable that: life is preferable to death, health is preferable to disease, comfort is preferable to pain, freedom is preferable to slavery.
Decisions and actions should be made that are most likely to allow for the maximum well being of sentient beings, and/or avoid harming the well being of sentient beings.
Every situation can be evaluated individually to determine the best actions to take to fit the above criteria.
[quote]So for example, if I felt anal sex was immoral, and you felt it wasn't, would it have a determinate nature as one or the other? Could it be said to be immoral?
Here's another example.
Theft is almost universally considered immoral. But if there are starving people and the only way to feed them was by stealing food, would it be moral to steal the food?
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
