RE: My views on objective morality
February 28, 2016 at 5:35 am
(This post was last modified: February 28, 2016 at 5:38 am by robvalue.)
Exactly.
Everyone picks their own morality, that's just a fact. "Morality" is not objective, for this reason. The only difference is whether you're prepared to change your morality over time, as you learn more, or whether you pick one set of rules and stick with it forever. They are both subjective in the first instance, but one is malleable and one is "objective" in that it won't change. It can't improve, either, unless you're willing to update it; in which case, it's subjective again.
That leaves a "best" morality, but if that best morality is fixed, it is arbitrary and useless. If it happens to contain good bits, I'll use them. Any bits that I don't think are good I won't use. So it just reflects back to me my own morality, which is basically what religion does.
Having a fixed way to measure things like mass and length is very useful. Having a fixed way to measure morality is not, except to the person making the measurement, using their own subjective standard.
Everyone picks their own morality, that's just a fact. "Morality" is not objective, for this reason. The only difference is whether you're prepared to change your morality over time, as you learn more, or whether you pick one set of rules and stick with it forever. They are both subjective in the first instance, but one is malleable and one is "objective" in that it won't change. It can't improve, either, unless you're willing to update it; in which case, it's subjective again.
That leaves a "best" morality, but if that best morality is fixed, it is arbitrary and useless. If it happens to contain good bits, I'll use them. Any bits that I don't think are good I won't use. So it just reflects back to me my own morality, which is basically what religion does.
Having a fixed way to measure things like mass and length is very useful. Having a fixed way to measure morality is not, except to the person making the measurement, using their own subjective standard.
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