The fact that people can subjectively be wrong about something does not mean that there are no objective truths!
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Replying to @AtheistStoned
But objective moral truths? What exists outside humanity that we can measure against?
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Replying to @AtheistStoned
Also human. We're just talking abt what's best for most of us & the methods we have to help us work it out.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Not for long. But sure, the same applies to quantum physics.
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Replying to @AtheistStoned
But if there is such a thing as objective moral truth, it'd have to be bigger than humanity. Otherwise its relative to us.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @AtheistStoned
And mediated through our needs & wants & priorities. We can't see a bigger picture. Small local needs.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
They're what natural selection (the most objective and amoral force in the universe) is based on.
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Replying to @AtheistStoned
Yeah, but I don't know what that has to do with morality.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Nothing directly, but the point is that something which is highly localised (subjective) can still be objectively true.
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Of course it can. It is objectively true that I am answering you right now. What does this have to do with an objective morality?
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