RE: Subjective Morality?
January 13, 2019 at 8:40 am
(This post was last modified: January 13, 2019 at 8:41 am by Acrobat.)
(October 15, 2018 at 11:45 am)robvalue Wrote: Heya, welcome
We’ve just been having a massive debate about this in another thread! Here’s my take.
Basically, "good" and "bad" are very vague, subjective terms. You can only have objective morality once you’ve defined those words in precise terms, so that any two people would reach the same conclusion in any given situation. But since people don’t agree on exactly what these mean, even if they generally agree, then any particular definition will be arbitrary or personal.
We can hope to reach a best compromise, but that’s all.
Definitions aren’t what’s holding objective morality back. If we agree on a definition of what’s constitutes the best movie of the year, it doesn’t become objectively true.
Objective morality requires a transcendental moral order, right and wrong has to exists in the world like truth, like the color of my wife’s dress, or the existence of other minds.
Absent of that, there’s no such thing as objective morality, what we’re left with is a series of false beliefs, nihilism, and statements of ones personal preferences and feelings