Being Intelectually Honest,Do you Belive there is no Objective Morality in God Less Universe ?
What makes you think religious morality is objective? Even people who belong to the same religion disagree as to what it’s moral commands are. The Catholic Church interprets the commands of the faith differently to the Orthodox Churches and the Protestant Churches. There are several schools thought in the Jewish faith and the Jews have spent almost their entire history as a faith in trying to interpret what their God actually commands. Similarly the Muslim faith is not only divided in Sunni and Shi’a but has multiple schools of interpretation of the the Koran and the Hadith within it, from the most strict literal interpretations which bend the Prophet’s attempts to ameliorate the ferocity of desert justice, to the Sufi mystics who almost use the Koran as the starting point for improvisation. Most morality, religious or atheist, is based on a gradual extension of the precept “do as you would be done by.” From the infant’s entire self-centredness, to the recognition of the otherness of o
I concur with the view that there is no objective morality. In response to the example you have quoted: If you stole from your mother, you are, first and foremost, benefiting at her expense. You also fail to note that you are not only guilty of theft. Because of the relationship that you share with the individual, it amounts to a breach of trust. An act of treason that hurts the victim financially and emotionally, which also lowers your own social standing in the household simultaneously. I cannot see how you can ever justify this course of action without adopting a nihilistic approach, even if you feel no sense of remorse for it. Genocides were not committed out of a need for survival. It is not even remotely of significant benefit to the perpetrators. The killings were simply committed out of a intense and irrational hatred for the victims. As such, there is no way to even subjectively justify genocide. We do not condemn dogs for being dogs and cats for being cats because they do not
There is Objective morality – one can do what they want as long as you don’t infringe upon another. ___ “If I were to speak your kind of language, I would say that man’s only moral commandment is: Thou shalt think. But a “moral commandment” is a contradiction in terms. The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments. My morality, the morality of reason, is contained in a single axiom: existence exists—and in a single choice: to live. The rest proceeds from these. To live, man must hold three things as the supreme and ruling values of his life: Reason—Purpose—Self-esteem. Reason, as his only tool of knowledge—Purpose, as his choice of the happiness which that tool must proceed to achieve—Self-esteem, as his inviolate certainty that his mind is competent to think and his person is worthy of happiness, which means: is worthy of living.
