(March 19, 2014 at 8:22 am)tor Wrote: Pretty much. Dillahunty goes like this.
Objective morals exist. Let's find them.
It's like math. Math is objective and it exists but people can be wrong about it.
For instance fermat theorem was hard to solve.
Same with objective morals. They exist. And they have to be discovered and it's a hard process.
For instance burning people alive is objectively wrong in almost all situations(maybe there is some situation where people have to be burned but I did not hear of any). But I am 100% sure that objective morals are related to the consequences of actions.
I don't find that convincing. Morality is not like math at all. That's not to say I don't value what I think Dillahunty and Harris want to say, which is that IF a person appreciates human life than there are ways to treat others that are objectively better or worse than other ways. But the notion that there are objective moral duties, such as the claim that a person ought to value life, I think is on flimsy ground.