RE: Moral Acts
January 13, 2017 at 1:20 am
(This post was last modified: January 13, 2017 at 1:26 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(January 13, 2017 at 12:37 am)robvalue Wrote: Sure, you can use your own way of measuring wellbeing to set up an objective morality. It's just not the objective morality based on wellbeing, because there isn't one. Different uses and contexts of the word objective.
I may be the one who disagrees with the objective measurement...doesn't have much to do with my own way of measuring. Are you sure there's no objective measurement of wellbeing as it applies to morality?
Is rape objectively or subjectively wrong with regards to human wellbeing? Is rape wrong (I assume we agree on that, lol) because of our opinions..or is it wrong regardless of our opinions? Do we have the authority to tell, for example, a rapist...that what they;ve done is wrong regardless of what they think about it? Is it sometimes okay, and sometimes not okay?
Personally, I'd say that rape is objectively wrong. It's not wrong because I think it's wrong, or because I made it wrong with my opinions, or because of any way that I, personally, measure wellbeing. I think that we -do- have the authority to tell a person who thinks rape is okay or ammoral that they're wrong about that, definitively, at any time. I'll settle for it being illegal.....ofc, we all make compromises.
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