(March 18, 2014 at 9:25 pm)bennyboy Wrote: I think there are some hidden equivocations here on what "subjective" means. If subjective means only that someone is experiencing a moral idea with a sense of agency, then every more is subjective. If it means that someone has arbitrarily chosen a more through actual free-will, then every more is probably objective, since "true" free-will cannot be demonstrated.I am only referring tot he acknowledgement of the more and its place in a society. Mores help to comprise of morality in a whole but it is nothing but standards and communal expectations. Morality though is different as it defines the positive and negative to an action and no action can be entirely positive or negative. Lying for example is deemed immoral yet without lying we would never have nations since we must lie to other nations to maintain a reasonable manner of peace. Morals are not objective in the slightest bit although they hold tendencies that outweigh a positive or a negative to determine the nature of their overall occurrence. Considering the increase in the world's population genocide may become morally acceptable.
Quote:Let me ask you this-- is the DNA a part of the self, or is the self supervenient on the DNA?
Neither since a part of the self is physical and DNA only helps attribute to this while another part of the self consist of the mind which comprises of subjective experiences.
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