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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: jbe who wrote (74896)2/22/2000 5:14:00 AM
From: epicure  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
If something cannot be proved it is very hard to argue it isn't subjective- especially something like morality, which clearly is subjective if you look across cultures. The similarities you see have probably have to do with the hard wiring of our brains and the fact (as mentioned earlier) that some strategies just don't work when people are living communally. So you probably have some baseline that is not subjective- but deciding where that is would be subjective. And of course there might not even be one.

There are subjects where experience and knowledge help, and morality might be one such subject- but I think one's knowledge would have to cover many cultures to really make one moral. Seems to me that people too steeped in one conception of morality frequently perpetrate awful things in the name of that morality.
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