Objective Morality, Anyone?

[bennyboy]

They're all objective. We just experience them subjectively.

Are you sure you wish to make that claim? So you are telling me that morals are actually observable concepts or actions?

"Morals" is just a word. In a physical monist determinism, the behaviors and ideas that are "moral" are just a part of the chain of causation, as is our decision to associate the word with them.

All our evaluations of things are a product of DNA interacting with environment. This includes feelings like love, a sense of duty, and even the superstitious sensations that lead some people to "feel" that a God really exists. If you claim that we have an ability to establish mores subjectively, you are implying free will-- but if you are choosing a substance dualist view of free will, you are invoking faith as a foundation to an argument-- and idea that won't fly among non-religious minds.