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Topic	Is 'morality' subjective or objective?
Daremo 05/30/23 2:37:49 AM #263:	The_Apologist posted... I don't necessarily disagree, although 'seems' is doing a lot of work there. Why can't we say that it seems as if there are objective moral facts? Because it doesn't. It seems as if there are not. No one behaves as if there are, no test can be applied, no empirical evidence is evident. Postulating that there are objective moral truths, how would the world be different if there were not? Would people still learn subjective morality from those around them, as they do now? --- Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary <cite>Daremo posted [p:973804750] in Is 'morali... [t:80459830]...</cite> <quote>The_Apologist posted... </cite><quote>I don't necessarily disagree, although 'seems' is doing a lot of work there. Why can't we say that it seems as if there are objective moral facts?</quote>Because it doesn't. It seems as if there are not. No one behaves as if there are, no test can be applied, no empirical evidence is evident. Postulating that there are objective moral truths, how would the world be different if there were not? Would people still learn subjective morality from those around them, as they do now? --- Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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