Comment on Philosophy meme

• BonfireOvDreams@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I expect this response despite the indication of its issue. Were nazi’s morally rigtheous in gassing millions of innocent people to death because they believed so? At that time that was their ‘progress.’ Independent of other socities or yourself having any issue, it’s simply fine to say that because a nazi thinks it’s fine, it is fine?

  I don’t think so, and I don’t think that is dependant on my preference. It just is wrong.

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  • BluesF@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Of course the Nazis weren’t right by our standards, and of course they were/are by their own. But by what universal standard can we judge their morality against ours? How can we know that what we think is right is the objective morality?

    Saying “it just is” really just means “I think so”, and it there’s as much reasonable backing for you to say it “just is” wrong to be a nazi as it is for someone to say it “just is” wrong to be gay.

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    • balderdash9@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      There is a distinction to be made between epistemology and ethics. Just because it is unclear how to judge an action as good or bad doesn’t mean that there isn’t a fact of the matter.

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      • BluesF@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        So if there is an objective truth of morality that exists beyond our judgements, in what form does it exist? Is it a fundamental part of the universe? Did it exist before humans? Or is it a part of us?

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