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vlad321 said:

marciosmg said:

I think we will never completely agree because of that. I believe some morality is subjective and some are objective.

You don't.

Now, here is a question: Do you believe that "right and wrong" does not exist or do you believe that us, humans, can never be sure if our "right and wrong" is the correct one?

 

 

Neither actually. Everyone has their own definition of right and wrong and everyone is sure that theirs is the right one, and what is right to some is wrong to others. Therefore right and wrong doesn't exist simply because we, humanity as a whole, will never be sure of what right and wrong is.

 

Edit: P.S. Why the hell does every time I have tests/project due the morning I end up in a philosophical argument in VGC? Maybe that explain my grades this semester....

 

Neither right or wrong exists?  So Adolf Hitler's definition of "right" by exterminating Jews, Gypsys, Gays, and Cripples is subjective... and according to your definition, we shall never know whether or not Hitler was good or evil, because his definition of "good" is good for him?

If the definition of "good" and "evil" have no true guidelines, then what is the fabric of morality?  Why feed the hungry in Africa?  Why protect a woman from sexual assault?  Why even call the police if I witness a thief breaking into my neighbors home?

If the meaning of "good" means nothing at all, then why have a United Nations to help prevent war?  Afterall, under your definition of good, an evil dictator who slaughters his own populace may be considered justified in murder.  If my neighbor wants to kill random people who drives past his home, how can I call this evil?  Afterall, for him, he might very well consider it good to murder.

Such subjectivity would mean the unravelling of our society, and a meltdown of all social standards. The very fact that the Western world has setup a court and system of laws directly opposes your way of thinking, therefore providing no justification for such a loose standard of morality.  Therefore your assertion that it is impossible to say whether or any given activity is wrong or right is in total defiance of the very system which you take part in everyday.

A society that has no standard in which to define wrong or right would break down into anarchy.