Moral Relativism Debate
The cluster focuses on debates about whether morality is subjective, relative, or objective, including discussions on moral relativism, the is-ought problem, and distinctions between morality and ethics.
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Morality is not completely subjective. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/701478
This is a difference of basic morality, not 'opinion'.
I think it's more that they have a _very_ different view of what morality consists of.
i don't think you'll find widespread agreement on what's moral or not. what's moral for you maybe abhorrent to someone else. there's not necessarily any absolute good or bad, it's all a matter of perspective.
What reality of ethics and morality do you appeal to, that isn't just another opinion?
morality is fundamentally based on opinion. from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is%E2%80%93ought_problem, Hume writes: "In every system of morality, which I have hitherto met with, I have always remarked, that the author proceeds for some time in the ordinary way of reasoning, and establishes the being of a God, or makes observations concerning human affairs; when of a
He's thinking philosophically, not politically (trying to influence people). We should be quite free to think and discuss things in an objective way without having to continuously show that we agree with contemporary morals.It might turn out that such a line of reasoning leads to the useless conclusion of "nothing is wrong" but it's certainly worth trying nonetheless. What we do know is that our current set of morals is somewhat arbitrary and could easily be full of "
Well, the GP mentions moral relativism, so it's no so farfetched.
Plus morality is highly subjective and beliefs on what is moral varies by individual.
Much morality is relative. Some isn't.