• Dasus@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Having objectivity in our system doesn’t mean our morals are based on objective things.

    Is it objectively wrong to kill?

    You can’t answer that with a “yes” or “no”, because it depends so much on the subjective situation.

    Also, arguments which you say “like, uh, 95% of people”, by guessing kinda devalue your whole comment. You dot need to not write what you were thinking, but instead say something like “they may not be completely objective, but our subjective views are so similar that practically we do have objective morality in certain contexts”.

    Which would be true.

    The “95% of people believe in basic human rights” isn’t. Utterly naive.

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        9 months ago

        No such thing as objective morality exists or can exist.

        It’s contextual, ie subjective.

        No need to equicovate.

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          9 months ago

          I’m not arguing for “one single 100% objective morality”. I’m arguing for social progress - maybe towards one of an infinite number of meaningful, functioning moralities that are objectively better than what we have now. Like optimizing or approximating a function that we know has no precise solution.

          And “objective” can’t mean some kind of ground truth by e.g. a divine creator. But you can have objective statistical measurements for example about happiness or suffering, or have an objective determination if something is likely to lead to extinction or not.