My views on objective morality

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Anyone that calls some things right and others wrong or talks about justice tacitly accepts the existence of moral facts. I object to those who knowingly deny the existence of moral facts but nevertheless treat human interactions in anything other than power dynamics. Interestingly, I do not recall you ever expressing a moral judgment although many others who deny moral facts do.

It's hardly up for debate that some basics exist within all cultures. What's very much up for debate is the divine nature of these basics. And these basics can pretty much be reduced to not murdering a member of your own tribe. Everything else shifts throughout time, region and culture.

And what all of you fail to adress or even to look at, is recent animal research. I pointed it out again with some names to go with, very early in this thread. We, as humans aren't that special. We only have developed more complex structures to deal with what nature has provided - at least - for mammals with a higher degree of social intelligence. In short, as a social species there have to be certain - for lack of a better word - rules, to prevent that the species takes too much harm from it's inside.