RE: General question about the possibility of objective moral truth
September 14, 2015 at 10:25 am
(This post was last modified: September 14, 2015 at 10:26 am by robvalue.)
Indeed!
As for morality, it's subjective. Morality is about "good" and "bad" actions, and until you define what those words mean, it doesn't mean a thing. You first need to say what the goal of morality is, and then you can compare actions to see which best serves that goal. It so happens that humans' ideas about that goal overlap a lot, which is no coincidence. But take any two people who disagree on the basic goal, and neither can say they are objectively right.
People mistake this overlap of goals due to evolution for magic, or some mystical abstract moral code woven into the universe. It is neither.
As for morality, it's subjective. Morality is about "good" and "bad" actions, and until you define what those words mean, it doesn't mean a thing. You first need to say what the goal of morality is, and then you can compare actions to see which best serves that goal. It so happens that humans' ideas about that goal overlap a lot, which is no coincidence. But take any two people who disagree on the basic goal, and neither can say they are objectively right.
People mistake this overlap of goals due to evolution for magic, or some mystical abstract moral code woven into the universe. It is neither.
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