(June 15, 2015 at 8:57 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Iatia, I struggle with this thinking. Forgive me if I'm wrong but it sounds like you're saying that morality is never universal and always dependent on what a particular society believes. There are plenty of society's who believe horrendous things are "good." Don't you think they are wrong, regardless of what they think?
You're putting the cart before the horse, my dear. You are judging another society's morals from the outside. If morals change over time (which they objectively do) then what makes your morality right now the end game? In 50 years, who knows what new technology or environmental pressure will create new mores and shift the ones we hold up now?
So, if what is moral in my society is not the same as another society, doesn't that make the point that morality is very subjective? If you were born in Afghanistan where women are not to speak unless spoken to, must not show their hair, can be beaten by their husbands, etc, would you know that this was immoral? I would argue no, without the knowledge that you have.
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