Morals are objective.
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Can you elaborate?
Sure!
Argument is that you can't just call something objectively evil or good. "Murder isn't evil, what if it was in self-defense."
That's overcomplicating it. If you weren't missing any context you could get around "what if" situations.
Now I don't think we can tell right from wrong at all times. Everything from personal experience, current position in history, and traits like greed make it hard for us. But still, there should be a right answer.
In practice this just means if I feel a topic is controversial to me, I will keep thinking or researching about it until I have a pretty stable stand. As opposed to "it's confusing so I don't want to think about."
I could at least get closer to right answer this way.
Hope this helps!
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Everything is objective. Our ability to quantity things is where we consider things to be subjective.
Well I believe in the soul…
I'm nitpicky about the word "believe". So let me rephrase: I do not believe. Either I know, or I don't know. Everything else are more or less informed speculations, assumptions or hypotheses at best.
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I believe I'd like another drink.
I believe that whatever doesn't kill you simply makes you..... stranger....
- Water is wet
- The sky is blue
- Women have secrets
The sky isn't blue.
God doesn't exist (though there is a tiny, tiny chance there's some higher power that doesn't intervene, because the human intelligence gap is unreasonably huge, making humans undeniably special)
Every organized religion is a cult
Free will is an illusion
Aliens most likely exist, given the insane size of the universe and we know life can exist here
Humans will still always give in to their brutal tribal instincts and that's why the world is how it is
I believe the pen in front of me exists.
That coffee cup is suspicious though.
Me.