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RE: Morality Isn't Relative: Morality's a Myth
This is interesting. Morals are basically an idea, so I don't know if a person could actually find any true evidence of them. They exist in the mind. I have heard people argue that morality is objective but for me that is a hard concept to grasp. Its hard for me to follow the idea that morality is innate within us and that it is not learned. Are you suggesting that morals, even as an idea within a person mind, do not exist? or that there is no objective absolute truth as to what a moral is and what makes something moral?
No, of course not. That's the entire existence of nearly everything people talk about. :)
I would argue against the idea of any objective or absolute truth about anything.
Challenge: What makes something moral?
The idea that "morality" is absolute is a symptom of an authoritarian personality.
Ordinarily, the "authority" in this case is by-proxy. I.E.: "cause X says so."
I would agree that they are ideas and also that there is no absolute truth to just about anything lol. I can't fulfill your challenge other than suggesting that a moral is an idea that a person believes because of their subjective experience.
I would further argue that subjective experience is all there is: and the best thing we can do is be objective about it. :)
good point