Moral Truth

[Chad32]

Religion reverses everything. You can hardly get through any part of the old testament without stumbling on something immoral by modern standards, and it takes until the last third of the book before you start reading things like "love your enemy" and "do unto others as you would have them do unto you". Things that aren't even original or unique to the bible.

If your moral compass is dictated by someone's opinion of something, that's the definition of subjective. if the only thing that keeps you from being a psychopath is the reward of heaven, or the threat of hell, that speaks more of your character than mine.

Social animals must have some sort of guidelines in order to coexist together. These guidelines are our morals, and they differ from group to group. Unfortunately what helps one groups survive is not always bets for someone outside of the group. The interactions between one group and another is often when morals start falling apart, and this is even shown in the bible.

Morals are subjective. the best way to tell if something is right or wrong is by objective means, like research. But then it becomes a matter of practicality, instead of morality.

When talking about morality, some people bring up things like rape and murder, and such. Rape and murder is always wrong. No matter what. The problem is that what some people consider rape or murder differs. Is it rape if the person forcing sex on the other causes them to orgasm? Some might say no. Of course objectively we know this is false, because enough stimulus will cause anyone to get hard. Just because that bus ride was rather bumpy, and my dick got hard of the seat, doesn't mean I'm in love with the bus.