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2018-09-06 22:16:29 UTC

I don't think there is anything in modern morality that is "outside the mind".

2018-09-06 22:17:40 UTC

Perhaps if I saw somebody struck by lightning out of a blue sky for doing something immoral, then there would be proof of an objective morality.

2018-09-06 22:18:27 UTC

Sure there are, things like degeneracy and the negative effect it has on those people and their society.

2018-09-06 22:18:59 UTC

Why must the consequences be immediate and obvious?

2018-09-06 22:19:00 UTC

An agreed upon set of ethics and decisions on what is more right won't sway me. I think there is justification for morality, but no true morality that presides above the rest.

2018-09-06 22:21:14 UTC

‘degeneracy’ is one of the most subjective things out there

2018-09-06 22:22:19 UTC

It's like, what is the difference between righteous anger, and indignation to you?

2018-09-06 22:24:26 UTC

Not really. If you believe in degeneracy, it becomes pretty obvious what are degenerate acts, naturally there will be edge cases as there are in everything.

2018-09-06 22:24:28 UTC

When does killing become murder?

2018-09-06 22:24:47 UTC

When does indulgence become degenerate?

2018-09-06 22:25:03 UTC

Murder is easily defined. Premeditated and unjustified killing

2018-09-06 22:26:03 UTC

Who decides what is Just when it comes to killing?

2018-09-06 22:27:25 UTC

Ideally it shouldn't be a "who". There should be some standard which determines what is justification

2018-09-06 22:27:42 UTC

But that's not how the Courts work.

2018-09-06 22:28:12 UTC

Because humans aren't capable of attaining perfect objectivity

2018-09-06 22:28:17 UTC

Should we do away with the courts and have a paper run them instead?

2018-09-06 22:28:33 UTC

What?

2018-09-06 22:29:41 UTC

Who would write this Mystical document that would enforce right and wrong and not be subjected to any interpretation?

2018-09-06 22:30:06 UTC

How would that be enforced?

2018-09-06 22:30:13 UTC

What would enforce it?

2018-09-06 22:30:56 UTC

This has nothing to do with the morality and justification of a thing, you are asking questions of application

2018-09-06 22:31:11 UTC

And I never mentioned a document

2018-09-06 22:31:33 UTC

I'm asking how is there a definite morality.

2018-09-06 22:32:07 UTC

No you weren't

2018-09-06 22:32:18 UTC

Yes, I was.

2018-09-06 22:32:34 UTC

If there is an objective morality, what is it?

2018-09-06 22:32:40 UTC

You asked about a document that would enforce the morality. Not how morality is definite

2018-09-06 22:33:01 UTC

Holy, sweet Lord, give me strength.

2018-09-06 22:33:22 UTC

A document would be the application of the morality

2018-09-06 22:33:52 UTC

I asked those questions because you said it should not be a "who" that decides what is Just

2018-09-06 22:34:02 UTC

Which implies it should be a what.

2018-09-06 22:34:18 UTC

A paper is written by a who

2018-09-06 22:34:44 UTC

Then, pray thee tell, do you suggest be proof of this objective morality?

2018-09-06 22:35:06 UTC

That is a philosophical question

2018-09-06 22:35:33 UTC

No, it is a question that directly relates to your *opinion* that there is an objective morality.

2018-09-06 22:35:44 UTC

That there is one morality that presides all others.

2018-09-06 22:35:49 UTC

And takes precedence.

2018-09-06 22:36:04 UTC

I'm asking what it is, and how is it free from interpretation?

2018-09-06 22:36:15 UTC

We should be able to logically deduce the objective morality, which is a question of philosophy.

2018-09-06 22:37:21 UTC

Unfortunately, humans are not perfectly logical creatures. We cannot achieve perfect objectivity in our moral systems.

2018-09-06 22:37:40 UTC

Morality is not logical as there is no system to validate what is moral, and immoral.

2018-09-06 22:38:22 UTC

I already provided two: natural rights and evolutionary psychology

2018-09-06 22:38:51 UTC

So, morality is a human concept, and as such you have argued against yourself in saying that humanity can never reach an objective morality, meaning it does not exist.

2018-09-06 22:39:11 UTC

When did I say that?

2018-09-06 22:39:58 UTC

Hmmm, "We cannot achieve perfect objectivity in our moral systems."

2018-09-06 22:40:26 UTC

Because "humans are not perfectly logical creatures."

2018-09-06 22:40:35 UTC

I already addressed this too, objective morality is the foundation for our moral systems

2018-09-06 22:40:52 UTC

There is no objective morality.

2018-09-06 22:40:57 UTC

There are no facts of it.

2018-09-06 22:41:09 UTC

Nothing that proves it is.

2018-09-06 22:41:21 UTC

There is only your opinion.

2018-09-06 22:41:31 UTC

I have given standards to validate it

2018-09-06 22:42:06 UTC

You dodged all my questions on the subjects of what is more right, and how it righteousness is dictated.

2018-09-06 22:42:42 UTC

When did I dodge them? What were they?

2018-09-06 22:43:04 UTC

What are natural rights?

2018-09-06 22:43:42 UTC

And "evolutionary psychology" is just genetic memory.

2018-09-06 22:44:07 UTC

So genetics are partly to determine what is moral?

2018-09-06 22:44:13 UTC

To what extent?

2018-09-06 22:45:19 UTC

And if that is so, not all humans are genetically identical, with so much variation, how is that a proper determinant?

2018-09-06 22:45:34 UTC

Natural rights is the philosophical concept of the state of nature for an individual to be truly free from outside compulsion and force.

2018-09-06 22:45:44 UTC

Then it's an opinion.

2018-09-06 22:45:57 UTC

A concept.

2018-09-06 22:46:05 UTC

Genral relgion based on race, muslims have no parted morals, there is not straight guideline 'rules' to morals

2018-09-06 22:46:13 UTC

religion*

2018-09-06 22:46:29 UTC

general*

2018-09-06 22:46:51 UTC

Natural rights are a concept. That isn't the basis for morality though, it is a standard to check it too.

2018-09-06 22:47:15 UTC

Then what *is* the objective morality?

2018-09-06 22:47:41 UTC

Where does it exist?

2018-09-06 22:47:46 UTC

How does it exist?

2018-09-06 22:47:53 UTC

I'm not debating what it is, just that it is objective

2018-09-06 22:48:10 UTC

You have to define things to debate

2018-09-06 22:48:15 UTC

None of which you have done.

2018-09-06 22:48:45 UTC

You haven't told me how it exists, why it exists, when it came to exist, where it exists, what it exists as.

2018-09-06 22:49:03 UTC

Only said it does

2018-09-06 22:49:06 UTC

Which is faith.

2018-09-06 22:49:13 UTC

Which apparently is an opinion m

2018-09-06 22:49:15 UTC

Wtf? Most of those questions don't apply to morality at all

2018-09-06 22:49:18 UTC

And opinions are not facts.

2018-09-06 22:49:44 UTC

The relate to the existence of this "objective" morality.

2018-09-06 22:49:47 UTC

Whatever that is.

2018-09-06 22:50:00 UTC

And that is what we are talking about, not morality itself.

2018-09-06 22:50:11 UTC

But the existence of an objective reality.

2018-09-06 22:50:44 UTC

That was the question

2018-09-06 22:51:01 UTC

What? Are you treating morality as an object?

2018-09-06 22:51:10 UTC

Is morality objective, or subjective?

2018-09-06 22:51:18 UTC

You said objective, so that means it exists.

2018-09-06 22:51:34 UTC

Which means there is a way to validate the facts surrounding it.

2018-09-06 22:52:08 UTC

A concept can not be objective.

2018-09-06 22:52:28 UTC

Yeah things can exist without a where or why or "what it exists as"

2018-09-06 22:52:41 UTC

I am not arguing against it, I'm asking how it is, and what it is.

2018-09-06 22:52:48 UTC

Where does the speed of light exist?

2018-09-06 22:52:58 UTC

In the speed of light.

2018-09-06 22:53:19 UTC

That's not a where

2018-09-06 22:53:19 UTC

It exists in light.

2018-09-06 22:53:26 UTC

No it doesn't

2018-09-06 22:53:50 UTC

The speed of light has nothing to do with light itself

2018-09-06 22:54:05 UTC

So the speed of light does not exist in the speed of light?

2018-09-06 22:54:17 UTC

Then it's just a number.

2018-09-06 22:54:20 UTC

A concept.

2018-09-06 22:54:25 UTC

It is a characteristic of the fabric of spacetime

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