No. Morality is different depending on the person and society they were brought up in, and it obviously has no existence without people. If an objective set of moral values existed, people would instinctively know there are two sets, their personal set and the intangible set, that overlap more or less, and nobody does.
Well, it believes in you. Go for it! You got this!!
Objective morality is objectively impossible, and subjectively believed possible.
For some limited things, specific to humans, yes. Babies have been tested and show reactions to some kinds of unfairness inflicted on others, not even on themselves, so it shows that even without being subject to the morality of a specific culture for a long enough time to embrace it themselves humans still have some innate sense of morality.
That doesn’t make it objective, just universal among humans. It is possible that an alien race would not share these morals. But that same alien race would agree on the speed of light.
Depends on who is asking.
me!
I believe in objective morality because the organized belief system that I was raised in as a child told me that objective morality is real and that it is objectively immoral to doubt said organized belief system
No
Yes, because my morals are objectively correct
No, but it’s a less inaccurate description than subjective; morality doesn’t change depending on who you are, just your imperfect understanding of it.
morality doesn’t change depending on who you are
Of course it does. What you find moral, I might find repugnant and vice-versa. And there are no “absolute moral virtues” either, such as not killing: plenty of people and societies find killing entirely appropriate, and sometimes even an act of kindness.
Your morality is entirely yours. There’s nothing in your morality that everybody else is somehow compelled to abide by.
Editing because my first comment was too pithy and combative:
While I agree that understandings of morality vary across cultures and individuals, that doesn’t say very much about whether morality itself varies. I think that moral relativism is a much more dangerous error than moral absolutism, for all that both are errors.
Yes I believe or at least want to believe. Not necessarily morality as much of morality is intertwined with life and becomes a bit moot at some point. Its more universal truth. Absolute truth. I don’t know if we can ever know it but I like to think its out there.
No. Morality is about saying something is good or bad - saying what has value. Value can’t exist without an observer projecting that value onto the objective world.
