(March 4, 2015 at 4:13 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: Well some people believe there is a kind of natural morality. Think about this: at any given time and at any given decision there are outcomes that will either make the world better or make the world worse. If are faced with the choice of eating cupcakes or eating shit you don't say 'Well taste in food is a subjective thing, so it doesn't really matter whether or not I eat shit or eat cupcakes.' Of course that's not true, there is a right decision there and a wrong one. The same applies to moral decisions. If you are deciding whether or not to yell at your spouse or beat your kids, it's not a matter of subjectivity. There is a correct moral decision which brings more happiness to everyone involved. So there could very well be a moral code that derives from natural law. It's also important to separate from what people perceive as moral and what actually is moral. Even if a whole society says that it's okay to beat your wife and kids, it doesn't mean that beating your wife and kids is moral. All it does is add suffering to the world and doesn't result in anything positive. Even the one doing the beating is made to be less of a human and suffers for it.
Keep in mind, I'm only saying that there could very well be. I myself am a Nihilist, so I don't really think it matters whether or not there are morals.
I think that you could very well be onto something there. But I don't think that necessarily the action that brings most happiness would always be the right one. That sounds pretty utilitaristic.
Still it seems like moral is a very subjective thing, differing from individual to individual. The question is if there are one or more universal sources from where morals could be extracted.
