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Morality (lemmy.zip)
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[-] MooseBoys@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

the fact that all morals are made up

You’re starting from the basic axiom of moral relativism. A moral absolutist would disagree with this axiom.

[-] Tb0n3@sh.itjust.works 0 points 11 months ago

And all I would have to do would be reference the multitudes of cultures across the earth and through time that have vastly differing morals.

[-] MooseBoys@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

A moral absolutist would argue that most, or even all, are wrong in one way or another. One can be a moral absolutist without claiming to be able to evaluate the morality of any particular scenario.

To provide an analogous example, there is a two-player game called Hex for which it has been proven that there exists a dominant strategy for the first player, but a generalized winning strategy is unsolved. One can soundly assert that such a strategy exists without knowing what it is. Likewise, its not fundamentally invalid to assert that there exist absolute moral truths without knowing what they are.

[-] Tb0n3@sh.itjust.works 0 points 11 months ago

Most people would go with murder but then again there's honor killings.

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