Comment on Philosophy meme
FluffyPotato@lemm.ee 11 months agoI 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.
FluffyPotato@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I’m not saying that, just that there’s no outside way of verifying if something is true or not in case of morals. I don’t believe objective morals exist because you can’t find a single moral stance shared among all of humanity not because you can’t measure the truth of that stance.
robo@feddit.uk 11 months ago
FluffyPotato@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Not really, if absolutely every single human at all stages of life believed it’s morally good to spit in their palm every day that would be an objective moral truth, there would be no subjectivity to it. For morals though no such thing exists.
You don’t need to be able to observe it externally to distinguish it. For example i can say I have a conscious experience and that would be objectively true even though we have a pretty minimal understanding on what that really is or how to measure it.