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FluffyPotato@lemm.ee 11 months agoThat 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.
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.
robo@feddit.uk 11 months ago
[deleted]FluffyPotato@lemm.ee 11 months ago
You can measure brain activity but not consciousness. Consciousness is most likely an emerging property of brain activity but we can’t really say more with out current understanding of 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.
ParsnipWitch@feddit.de 11 months ago
Is suffering good or bad? I don’t mean that in a specific context, but any type of suffering in itself.
FluffyPotato@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I can’t really say about all kinds of suffering, it really depends on context.
It’s like asking if all love is good. There are so many situations I can imagine it could be good or bad or even neutral.