So the only thing we could possibly accept as objective morality is the popular vote of all people. — Benj96
Out of all peoples input on the planet there has to be someone who has the most workable, justifiable mode by which we should be living to maximise benefit for everyone or minimise harm etc, or whatever parameters true morality would lie on. — Benj96
I’m sorry to say I don’t think your formalization of the dilemma is coherent. You start off with objective morality as part of your premise and then include the subjective morality of the “center” as part of your problem but if there is objective morality then we could just go by that, no subjective quagmire. — DingoJones
is not to say thatof ultimate objective good and evil. — Benj96
are themselves ultimately ultimate.the most virtuous pure being that humanity possesses and another is truly the most perverse and malevolent. — Benj96
But I think of evil instead as being like a bit of grit that found its way into the custard, knowable and known by its grittiness, even as its proportion is one part in thousands. — tim wood
Not because they can't see the immorality in it, but because they decide that they had rather kill, steal and cheat, than be moral.
In this world this is funny, because in your world everyone acts according to their best perceived morality. At least that is what I get from your description. — god must be atheist
1. Everyone thinks of himself as the person who is absolutely good, because they all obey their own moral code to the letter.
2. Every deviation from their moral code is judged by them as "bad", as their own is perceived as perfect, so deviations from it must seem as imperfections, which ab ovo heralds an immoral quality in personality. — god must be atheist
This would not work. Any deviation from one's own moral code in your proposed world would mean to that person that it is bad morality. Since he, the individual (all individuals and every one of them) beleive their own code is the absolute moral, they MUST regard deviation as badness, and similarity as goodness. — god must be atheist
As maybe the same idea goes with how many of us fear becoming old and decrepit or the process of decline to death when actually 70% of our life is not this stage but one of health and able-bodiedness. Those last few years of a standard healthy lifespan are the grit in the otherwise long lived healthy custard so to speak. — Benj96
Nothing was implied that meant you believed your own moral code was correct. — Benj96
The logic of this spectrum would suggest that only the ends, the extreme poles of morality see the true distinction between good and bad. A perfect liar and a perfect truth teller. In order to be the worst most corrupted person possible one would have to understand their antithesis (the good) and reject it- so as to never accidentally do something beneficial for someone else. And vice versa.
Everyone in the centre cannot identify who is who. How could they? everyone in the middle is a mixture - both good and bad traits. Their moral compass isn’t perfectly calibrated — Benj96
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