Does absolute morality require a supernatural explanation?

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KungKras said:

Dodece said:
@KungKras

What you are describing is to the letter the justification for Genocide, Slavery, Colonialism, Inquisitions, Misogyny, Pogroms, Terrorism, Ethnic Cleansing, Bigotry, Concentration Camp, Environmental Exploitation, and just about every war in the history of mankind. In other words you may need to rethink your positions on this question. I doubt you would care too much for your option if you were in the minority.

Since when were genocides justified by "The most abmount of people will benefit from this"?

It was always "Our people will benefit from this" that led to those things. Some colonialists didn't even think of the people in the lands they conquered as humans.

I fail to see the similarity. More human suffering and death = less moral, and more human well-being = more moral. Seems like a perfectly good definition to me.

Well for example.  Sterlyzing everyone who has a genetic disorder now will cause less suffering over the long term as nobody will be born with stuff like taysachs disease.

Or just the outright murder of everyone with aids.  Then no more aids.  Sure your killing people now, but in the future far less people will die.

It's like the old question.  Would you kill one man for the cure to cancer.  You'd have to kill an innocent man but MILLIONS would be saved.

"For the greater good" allows for all sorts of attrocities against the individual.