It's not subjective. Try not having empathy.I took part in a test for psychopaths as a control subject when I was doing psychiatric nursing and had to look at neutral and upsetting images. My frontal lobe fired at pictures of people in distress. Yours must too. Can't you feel it?
You're not following me for the reason religious people generally don't. You'd first need to accept, at least for the sake of argument, that morality is not something humans seek outside themselves but a quality of us, that we can understand as a whole load of 'is's & get right.
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I am perfectly willing to entertain the idea. What I can't understand is how all those 'is's' can possibly provide a rational argument to follow moral precepts that might, on occasion, be against our individual self interest.
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It's the same as how all these 'is's can provide a rational argument for eating an optimal diet that might, on occasion, be against our preferences. These are different things - what is optimal and what we want to do.
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If we could programme all the 'is's that pertain to human morality into a computer & it could calculate the optimum human morality in any given situation, this still won't wash with someone who isn't thinking morally but selfishly. Those would be different calculations.
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I totally accept as plausible, nay probable, that moral intuitions are an innate product of natural selection. What I cannot see is how, if that is all they are, it is rational to obey these intuitions in circumstances when disobeying is beneficial to the individual.
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You seem to be asking 'If there empirical answers to optimum morality, how will we get people who don't care about morality to obey them.' We won't. In the same way, we won't persuade someone who doesn't want to be healthy to comply with empirical evidence of how best to be so.
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