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Poll: Is Morality Objective or Subjective?
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Just be good and leave these questions on the nature of morality to philosophers to quarrel on.
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Is morality objective or subjective?
#11
RE: Is morality objective or subjective?
I don't see how anyone can think morality is objective without believing in some sort of supreme creator.
"Of course, everyone will claim they respect someone who tries to speak the truth, but in reality, this is a rare quality. Most respect those who speak truths they agree with, and their respect for the speaking only extends as far as their realm of personal agreement. It is less common, almost to the point of becoming a saintly virtue, that someone truly respects and loves the truth seeker, even when their conclusions differ wildly." 

-walsh
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#12
RE: Is morality objective or subjective?
People are becoming lost in words, and forgetting who they are.
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#13
RE: Is morality objective or subjective?
(March 19, 2017 at 10:30 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: I don't see how anyone can think morality is objective without believing in some sort of supreme creator.

I don't see how a supreme creator would make anything more objective.
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#14
RE: Is morality objective or subjective?
(March 19, 2017 at 10:40 am)MysticKnight Wrote: People are becoming lost in words, and forgetting who they are.

You should know.

Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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#15
RE: Is morality objective or subjective?
(March 19, 2017 at 10:30 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: I don't see how anyone can think morality is objective without believing in some sort of supreme creator.

Exactly this. It also doesn't necessarily become objective if there is some sort of god out there somewhere. From what I've seen, it's a construct of human societies.
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#16
RE: Is morality objective or subjective?
(March 19, 2017 at 10:45 am)Alasdair Ham Wrote:
(March 19, 2017 at 10:30 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: I don't see how anyone can think morality is objective without believing in some sort of supreme creator.

I don't see how a supreme creator would make anything more objective.

Have you considered a Creator must create from his eternal being for it to be objective? And that he must the eternal standard by which all things are judged?

And that we are in need of his judgment being revealed so that we unite as humans towards what is true and objective?

Who judgement is better then the being who by definition is the perfect judge?

So who can deny oneness of God or deny the need of Messengers or deny the need of books and interpreters of the book or Guide who light and show the way when God is by definition the best of judges and if morality is to exist and we are to have REAL value, exact real measured value, then God has to exist!

Not only that but everything get's it definition and reality with relationship to God, God gives everything it's creation.

The Bible and Quran are full of proofs of God, we just belittle them for no reason but our desire to reach a greatness that we will not reach, a deceptive greatness where we put ourselves in the position of the value we should give to God.

(March 19, 2017 at 11:26 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
(March 19, 2017 at 10:40 am)MysticKnight Wrote: People are becoming lost in words, and forgetting who they are.

You should know.

Boru

As I do.
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#17
RE: Is morality objective or subjective?
(March 19, 2017 at 9:02 am)mh.brewer Wrote: Unless you're bringing a new slant to the objective/subjective discussion, I'm objectively a bowel of petunias.

Oh no not again




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#18
RE: Is morality objective or subjective?
I love how we humans try to reason objective morality when to the date, we are the only ones able to do that such construction.

"A guy lands in a jungle full of canniballs. If he is not to be eaten, he must do a rite of passage. He must have a bottle of firewhater, get a tooth out of a lion, then make love with a tribeswoman. The guy goes for the bottle, dryed it, made love with the lion and said, now I only have to take 1 tooth out of that woman."
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#19
RE: Is morality objective or subjective?
(March 19, 2017 at 10:45 am)Alasdair Ham Wrote:
(March 19, 2017 at 10:30 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: I don't see how anyone can think morality is objective without believing in some sort of supreme creator.

I don't see how a supreme creator would make anything more objective.

Because then morality would be something real that was actually created and actually exists in the universe, outside of ourselves and our own opinions. Meaning it's not just a human construct. 

In Catholicism, we call objective morality "Natural Law." With God being the Law Maker.
"Of course, everyone will claim they respect someone who tries to speak the truth, but in reality, this is a rare quality. Most respect those who speak truths they agree with, and their respect for the speaking only extends as far as their realm of personal agreement. It is less common, almost to the point of becoming a saintly virtue, that someone truly respects and loves the truth seeker, even when their conclusions differ wildly." 

-walsh
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#20
RE: Is morality objective or subjective?
(March 19, 2017 at 10:30 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: I don't see how anyone can think morality is objective without believing in some sort of supreme creator.

Why would his opinions be more objective than anyone else's opinions? Though apparently Alasdair believes my definition of objective is off.
Poe's Law: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."

10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/

Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50

A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html

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