RE: If morality is subjective...
February 14, 2015 at 3:02 am
(This post was last modified: February 14, 2015 at 3:09 am by Thumpalumpacus.)
(January 26, 2015 at 8:49 pm)rasetsu Wrote: Morality is contingent, but not subjective. It depends on things like human nature, and the family and community we learn our morality from. If I grow up in a racist family, there's a good chance I will end up racist, too. That's a contingency; I didn't decide that I would have that influence on my morality, nor do I really have much say in how I react to that environment, whether I rebel or not, it's a matter of contingent factors in my life. Morality is part human nature and part inheritance. If I grew up in a country where racism was accepted, I would develop a different morality than if I grew up in a country that abhorred racism. It's contingent, not subjective.
One can choose one's morality. My mother was raised in Texas in the 50s, and raised to be racist, but she made a conscious decision to not buy into that crap.
I agree that sociocultural norms play a big role, but at the same time, they aren't cast in metal. After all, many of us here were raised -- which is another way to say programmed -- to believe in the god of the Bible, and yet we were able to think our way through that programming.
I think that morality is both subjective, and relative.
(January 27, 2015 at 12:20 am)Dystopia Wrote:(January 27, 2015 at 12:14 am)Parkers Tan Wrote: "What makes you think a morality based on your faith is objective?"
Arguing from the POV of a theist - Since God exists, then moral values commanded by Him are undeniable and absolute - Therefore objective
Given the fact that those values aren't abstractions which can be justified on their own terms, they aren't absolute; they're relative. And because whether or not you should practice them depends on your point of view, they aren't objective.
