You invoked slavery as a supposed exception to the general rules that all societies must legislate against rape and theft, which is therefore an objective necessity and not just a "subjective want."
No. I used slavery as
evidence that societies can be pro rape and theft as well. My argument for the subjective nature of laws are that they are created by people and imposed by force and so we see laws applied selectively according to the subjective wants of the law makers. Do the laws of gravity need to be secured and protected with legislation? No, because they exist objectively. They exist no matter how we feel about them. Societal laws dont exist until someone writes them and they have no affect on anyone until they are imposed through force. The laws of gravity exist objectively and so don't require the assistance of law enforcement to impose itself on the natural world.
Also what's
supposed about it? Did slavery not happen? Was it not legal to rape and steal from slaves?
You may claim that you define your opposition to slavery as a "subjective want" as well, but I didn't claim that you were arguing in favor of objective morality.
So what are you arguing?
You argued in favor of your personal subjective morality, your objections to slavery, and that's still a moral argument.
A moral argument about what? This isn't about me. You just keep trying to make it about me. This is about your argument that laws written by people are objective. Stop attacking me and defend your argument with more than a dodge, because calling it an exception and then using that as some excuse for why you don't have to address how it counter minds your claims is just that, a frail dodge.
But if all societal wants are subjective, then your personally-moral arguments against the abuses of slavery fail even on your own relative scale,
Fail at what? Conveying my personal sentiments? I think they do that just fine.
not to mention that your exceptions don't disprove the societal rule.
My evidence is proof that your rule isn't objective. It's selective. It's subjective. Who can be raped and who is protected from rape is determined by who is making the law. That's what subjectivity is. Look it up.
Still didn't say you stumped for objective morality. Whale on that strawman some more.
Then I misinterpeted your argument. There's there.
If you really believed in subjective wants,
So wait, are you questioning whether I believe in objective morality verses subjective wants? Why are you being frail about this?


then the wants of the slaver would not matter less than the wants of the slave.
In regards to nature and the objective world. That means neither has any more
objective value than the other. They may have varying degrees of subjective value but that's not the same thing. There is no objective value to the taste of mangos for example. Some people like them, so people don't. Some people like to enslave others detest slavery. These are called
feelings. They have significance to the people experiencing them but no objective value that can be discerned.
You invoke slavery customs to disprove a general rule,
No. Again, I use slavery as
evidence of society being pro rape and theft. You insist these rules exist objectively and then call any question of that and evidence to the contrary, an
exception to these rules whos premise we arent even allowed to question apparently. That is what I'm doing though. Anti rape and theft do not exist objectively they exist selectively based on the subjective whims of law makers, voters, dictators, monarchs or whom ever may be responsible for the crafting of your societies rules.
and you clearly do so to create a false impression of moral superiority in despising slavery, which isn't exactly a risky proposition these days.
I don't invoke slavery for anything that has to do with me or my feelings. You make these things about me because you cant make your argument. I invoke slavery as
evidence of society being pro rape and theft. Thats it.
Your intellect is entirely tied in to your own "personal pique" and it's hilarious to see you claim otherwise.
My feelings on slavery, theft and rape have no bearing on the
objective fact that Founder society engaged in it.