Subjective Morality?

[bennyboy]

The idea that lying is wrong is not only a statement about objective morality, but seemingly about absolute morality.  It reeks of religious dogma, methinks.  That being said, some people get so fixated on particular religious ideas that they have strong feelings about them, and this (of course) affects their moral position.

The problem with your original proposition is that it is not able to be challenged or argued against. If someone didn't care to mention the issue in the first place, then the issue would not be mentioned... and we would never have the discussion at all. But if someone DID mention the issue, then he/she would thereby care which (somehow) amounts to an admission of subjectivity as far as you're concerned.

Consider this: If nobody cared about having an accurate description of how the natural world functioned, science wouldn't be considered a valid way of discovering facts about the world. You could even take this further: If nobody cared that Saturn was further from the Earth than Jupiter, then nobody would bother to figure it out. This much is true, is it not?

That's the problem with conflation.  When I say someone cares, in a moral sense, I'm talking about a visceral emotional response, not "Hmmmm. . . I'm curious what the correct answer to #23 was."