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@DélioPT:

I actually think there is! :)
But instead of that you can the "sentimental" side.

Well, there isn't such a thing.

It`s a very "dangerous" thing to let morality be the result of a concensus.

Morality has no value if there's no consensus.

They aren`t meant to be voltatile in that way: it could mean that what is right today is forgotten tomorrow.

Morals are volatile. Many things that were considered "moral" in the past are considered "immoral" today, and vice versa (for example in the Middle Ages Christians considered it perfectly moral to kill non-Christians).

Morality reports to the highest human values that we can comprehend; they are born from the essence of humanity: love, dignity, freedom, respect, reason, feelings, etc. Yes, there are a number of morals, but if they can`t be born from that premiss they aren`t of great value. So they need to "be" before a place, a time or context.

Morals are the result of the time, place and context. They have no value outside of that.

I have a catholical moral/ethical view on this life. Can`t i criticize/judge other cultures because of cultural differences? Yes i can.

Yes you can, but that's a very ignorant thing to do.

My ethical view allows me to see people from a humanity point of view, not a european, american, asian, etc. man or women. That`s the strength of ethics: it doesn`t in particular to anyone, but for everyone in general and how we all share something in common - normally moral values as i said above.
It`s not a mistake, it`s a necessity if you truly want to critize/judge yourself and others whilst retaining objectivity.

On the contrary, yopu're very subjective when you say this. And regardless of what you say, your moral/ethical values only apply in the context in which you learned them (the period, the location etc.), and have no value outside of this. You say you're objective, but you're actually looking at the world from the perspective of an European Christian (which suggests that your views have been determined by the place you were born in, the historical period you were born in, and other elements relating to the context), which in itself shows your subjectivity. You also didn't come to these views objectively, because at least some premises your rerasoning started with have been taught to you (for example that love, freedom, dignity etc. are the essence of humanity), rather than being discovered through rational thinking.



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