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I think you are going to have to allow yourself to do a bit more work here. I fully understand what you are trying to say — yours is a rather common though jejune opinion. You have reduced any moral notion to *what people feel about it* and this fits with your admitted philosophy of ‘hedonism’. You feel a certain way about something, and what you feel — if it is pleasant I gather — is therefore ‘right for you’. It is a truth, for you.Objective morality states that things are right or wrong period, no matter what society or other people feel about it. People who think homosexuality is objectively wrong don't think it's made right because society legalizes it. If that were the case @Alizia Tyler would have to accept that white nationalism is morally wrong and yet she repeats over and over again that even though society finds her arguments dangerous, or evil that they are in fact ethical, that means despite society's moral objections she thinks she's right. If your notion about objective morality is true, that it's decided by consensus then you're saying she's full of shit.
Obviously, this leads to completely subjective morality that is ‘non-objective’.
Yet, oddly, your definition is universal. In this world, in this time, in all times and all worlds and all possible worlds all morality could only be based on that which you base it on: feeling. So you have strangely denied a universal principle (the possibility of perception of *moral absolutes*) while with that oddly active left hand have willed another absolute into existence.
I think this contradiction is pretty certral to your entire mental-intellectual program.
The idea of *moral absolutism* is an idea understood by, and conceived by, a given person who recognizes his or her existence within a shifting, mutable, never-constant world, which is to say our physical-biological world.
In order to make a truth-statement (in accord with Aristotelian axioms) one has to have a position from which one can state a truth. This is *the principle of non-contradiction*. If there is such a thing as a mathematical truth, or a truth about some relationship within the physical world, it must be founded within non-contradiction. So, certain truths, or facts, are seen as absolutely true.
I assume you’d go this far with me.
The idea of anything being absolute operates in your thinking even if you are not aware of it, or cannot acknowledge it. I pointed this out just above. Any truth-statement that you make, according to you, must be and should be (and is) true. But how can you make truth-statements if there is no solidity of any sort?
You deny that such is possible, and yet you depend on your understanding that it is indeed possible and also necessary.
I think objective moral systems are systems of understanding based upon principles — first principles — which are part-and-parcel of complex divinations (if you will permit the word) about the nature of this reality. How people think about this does, indeed, shift and change, no one could deny this.
So, in order to understand your position, and it is crucial to understand your position for a group of reasons, one has to understand and recognize your *first-principles*. Your essential first-principle seems to be that all is made up only of *bits & atoms*. That consciousness is purely a physical phenomenon. That ‘higher levels’ do not exist and that everything — all of life and certainly all of human life — reduce to their elements. And this means, according to you, that everything reduces to subjective sensation. There is no right or wrong, good or bad, and definitely no good and evil, because ultimately it is all just a chaotic play of those *bits & atoms*.
This assertion is of course, when it is examined, totally false! Because you have all sorts of ways to allow to creep in all sorts of different ideas — determining ideas that are metaphysical to a world of pure matter. So, you seem to self-contradict.
But you are not alone. Many people have the view that you speak from. Not because they have worked to have it, but because it has been imposed on them and they do not, or cannot, actually think things through. So they are stuck in a convention.