Atheists only vote please: Do absolute MORAL truths exist? Is Rape ALWAYS "wrong"?

[JuliaL]

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"The moment we admit that consciousness is the context in which any discussion of values makes sense, we must admit that there are facts to be known about how the experience of conscious creatures can change—and these facts can be studied, in principle, with the tools of science. "
-Sam Harris

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I think he's got a pretty good point there. Animals included in that lot.

And at this, the self aware individual, I draw the line where morality applies.
I do not consider rocks, trees or flatworms self aware and so they cannot experience better/worse, good/bad, right/wrong. As soon as an individual knows it exists, it can suffer consciously. I am against suffering, specially my suffering.