RE: What IS good, and how do we determine it?
June 16, 2015 at 12:12 am
(This post was last modified: June 16, 2015 at 12:15 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(June 16, 2015 at 12:09 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: I do find the notion that morality is completely relative and completely subjective, a deeply flawed one. And I don't even say this as a Catholic, I say this as a person who really does try to think logically. Even if I were an atheist, I don't think I could ever make sense of the notion that morality is always subjective.
This would mean that as long as a particular society or culture thinks something is moral, it is. I could never see killing infidel children or burning alive women who were rapped or cutting off a 12 year old's clitoris as ever being moral. Regardless of whether or not that particular culture thought it was, I would still believe those things are intrinsically immoral and so it would follow that I would still believe in some sort of moral truth.
-Which is precisely what we see. Subjective morality doesn't mean that you have to -agree- with the moralities of all of those societies. It simply accepts that what people perceive as moral (as right, as good..like the chopping of clits, or the tips of dicks..for that matter) is subjective.
I don't agree with those moralities anymore than you do, or anymore than I agree with -yours- or you agree with mine. That is precisely -why- it is subjective. That's all that subjective morality means in the first place.
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