JW looking for clarity

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Matt argues that some actions are more moral than others; this is a very reasonable deduction from our everday experiences. Most of us "know" that hitting someone over the head for no reason is less moral than helping them out with something, in most situations. So he argues that there must be a set of actions in each situation which, according to the person about to make them, represents the most moral actions possible. Yes, this is a matter of opinion for each person. But people in general have become pretty good at making sound moral judgements. If they didn't, society wouldn't work like it does.

This isn't exactly hard science, but I think to deny its logic is to ignore pretty much everything about society, and the moral compass almost everyone has inside them. If someone wants to say that they can't decide what is better between feeding and raping a child without asking the opinion of a celestial being, then they are either a sociopath or are talking crap. And anyhow, if you surrender all your moral judgements to a "system" you blindly follow, then you have no morality at all. You're just a servant of a system.