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[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 23 points 1 year ago

If objective morality existed, we wouldn't be arguing about those things since we would all be in the same agreement.

Even "murder is wrong" isn't objective morally when you ask someone who believes in the death penalty.

[-] Wogi@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

This argument makes a fundamental mistake. Objective does not mean everyone agrees. Objective just means it's true.

The earth goes around the sun is objectively true, but give me 5 minutes and I can find you someone to disagree with that statement.

Disagreeing with an objective truth just means you're wrong.

[-] BellaDonna@mujico.org 2 points 1 year ago

While that works with 'facts', it doesn't work for opinions. A sense of morality is exactly an opinion or set of opinions that define what is and isn't right. It is exactly mired in perspective and again this is very self evident.

Muslims say that music is Haram because it is said so in Hadith, does that make music objectively wrong? They believe when a religious authority states this is true, that the religious authority has made a canonical judgement ( fatwa ) that is basically binding.

Am I a heathen for liking music then?

I can't believe people are so naive as to think objective standards for morality are even remotely possible.

[-] mindrover@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Muslims say that music is Haram because it is said so in Hadith, does that make music objectively wrong?

That is the exact opposite of what the above comment said. An objective view of morality would say that the "rightness" or "wrongness" of the act of making music is an objective truth. If music is "right", then music is right, regardless of what Muslims or any other people say, and vice versa.

It means you can't come to a correct moral judgement just by taking a poll of the people around you.

[-] BellaDonna@mujico.org 1 points 1 year ago

That's literally exactly how all humans work. Our ideas is morality come from our peers, and culture. That's all relative and very mutable.

[-] balderdash9@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

Look at the upvote/downvote ratio on OP's comment. That you all you need to know lol. Wish there was a !philosophymemes community on Lemmy

[-] UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

"Objective just means it's true". No it doesn't. How do you even define "truth"? How do I know that I am not the only real person and that all of u r NPCs? How do I know that I am not in a simulation? Now, discussing about the simulation hypothesis is dumb, as it is unscientific in nature. It is not testable.

What is true can be established only when it goes through the scientific method. Hence, an "objective" statement is that statement that would be agreed upon using the scientific method by a certain consensus.

Morality is not testable. Hence, the scientific method cannot be used here. Hence, it can never be objective.

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