(January 5, 2015 at 11:28 pm)*steve* Wrote: Why use what is normative as a defense? Why not just what I want?
Because it's likely to see you into a hole in the ground pretty quickly.
You see, morality was evolved by social animals in order to lubricate their social interactions. If you act in a way that the majority judge immoral, you will lose status, freedom, or even life to the group, as they assess their collective judgement.
The fact that morality is relative and subjective doesn't mean it is fallacious, which seems to be your unqiestioned assumption.
