RE: Objective morality as a proper basic belief
July 13, 2017 at 10:29 am
(This post was last modified: July 13, 2017 at 10:38 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Being subject to circumstance isn't an impediment to an objective morality, unless that circumstance is the moral subject in question. For example....the theft of a loaf of bread is not more or less wrong because of who does it, but because of the circumstance in which that subject finds themselves and it's relationship to the object, the moral fact of the matter.
Nevertheless, some things are considered to be so beyond the pale of circumstance, that there is no moral amelioration for that act, due to the nature of -the act-...which is the object..in an objective morality. As examples.
Man steals loaf of bread because he wants it. Flatly wrong.
Man steals loaf of bread because he is starving. Still wrong, but less wrong.
Man commits genocide Because Jews. Flatly wrong.
Man commits genocide because "god" told him to. Flatly wrong.
God commits xenocide because he's super pissed about people not doing what he wants them to. Flatly wrong.
It takes a morally compromised person, to take issue with the latter statements, and perhaps -worse- to argue that they are..in fact..not only good, but perfectly so.
Nevertheless, some things are considered to be so beyond the pale of circumstance, that there is no moral amelioration for that act, due to the nature of -the act-...which is the object..in an objective morality. As examples.
Man steals loaf of bread because he wants it. Flatly wrong.
Man steals loaf of bread because he is starving. Still wrong, but less wrong.
Man commits genocide Because Jews. Flatly wrong.
Man commits genocide because "god" told him to. Flatly wrong.
God commits xenocide because he's super pissed about people not doing what he wants them to. Flatly wrong.
It takes a morally compromised person, to take issue with the latter statements, and perhaps -worse- to argue that they are..in fact..not only good, but perfectly so.
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