SteveII, I believe it's the first time I address you.
But it's not the first time I address morality on this forum...
It's always the same, with the claim of "objective morality" from the theists who then claim that "objective morality" was come from a god.
What I would call "objective morality", would be something more akin to the morality of the majority, the collection of subjective moral values from a given group of people. Where the subjective morality belongs to a single individual.
From this collection, you then extract the overall moral rules... how? Some groups would go for a democratic method, others go for the opinion of a few enlightened people.... others go for the opinions of one man.
Which is best? beats me.
Where does the individual's morality come from? parents and the society around them, it seems. We are, after all, social animals. Where do other social animals get their morals? their rules of social interaction? How do they keep from raping and killing each other?
But it's not the first time I address morality on this forum...
It's always the same, with the claim of "objective morality" from the theists who then claim that "objective morality" was come from a god.
What I would call "objective morality", would be something more akin to the morality of the majority, the collection of subjective moral values from a given group of people. Where the subjective morality belongs to a single individual.
From this collection, you then extract the overall moral rules... how? Some groups would go for a democratic method, others go for the opinion of a few enlightened people.... others go for the opinions of one man.
Which is best? beats me.
Where does the individual's morality come from? parents and the society around them, it seems. We are, after all, social animals. Where do other social animals get their morals? their rules of social interaction? How do they keep from raping and killing each other?
