Comment on Philosophy meme
balderdash9@lemmy.zip 11 months agoThat’s exactly the point. For example, people used to think chattel slavery in the US was morally acceptable because they viewed black people as inferior. But today we would say that black people are not inferior and that they were mistaken. The moral relativist would say that slavery was okay to do back then because that’s what the people agreed on. Do you still agree with the moral relativist?
FluffyPotato@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I agree that morals are relative considering there are a ton of people who still believe black people are inferior and also places with slavery.
Something can be morally objective if every single person in the world believes it but I can’t think of a single example of that.
robo@feddit.uk 11 months ago
FluffyPotato@lemm.ee 11 months ago
That would be the case if morals were something we can measure outside the human experience. Unfortunately there is no way to measure if something is moral or not outside how someone feels about it.
ParsnipWitch@feddit.de 11 months ago
That doesn’t mean it does not exist though. It simply means we can’t measure it.
robo@feddit.uk 11 months ago