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Peh said:

(1) Do objective morals exist? There is no evidence that it does. Personally I don't believe in objective morality. You can have your premises, but there is no foundation for them. 

While I respect your belief, I believe that objective morality exists. While we have thousands of religions around the world, all of them have goals to follow certain rules in order to have peace and order. While they differ in execution, all of them have divine entity as a reference that deter its followers to act on their basic instincts. This divine entity is their objective reference. 

(2) That's correct. There are people out there who are indeed doing this, because there is no one, which they think, who can stop them. 

My point exactly.

(3) And that's actually they case when you look at humanities past and present. Different cultures were created which different laws. How can that not be a part of subjective morality? 

And that's why we compare those moralities and weigh them based on their own rationale, not based on what we think should be right. If there is any inconsistencies to the rationale of the morality of these Religions at their own perspective, then, it's irrational and therefore its laws and morality are invalid.

(4) It's one of these, both and neither depending on how you look at it. There is no moral ground on where you stand.  Good and bad don't exist from a universal point of you. The universe doesn't care. Humans do. For some humans, Nazi's are consider bad and for others humans Nazi's are considered good. If humans would be objective moral and Nazism considered bad, there wouldn't be any Nazi's. If your counter-argument is, well, that's just wrong, than you committing an appeal to emotions which you actually do by your reasoning. 

And where do these concept of right and wrong came from? There is a reason why Psychology is considered not an empirical Science, because for its theories and concepts, it cannot be broken down into quantum level. A physicist can dissect every cell of your body, but only you knows what is on your mind. The point I'm making is, morality and consciousness cannot be created if the only reality is materialistic. 

(5) And that's also going in the direction of an appeal to emotions. I don't believe in objective morality, nor free will, so how do I solve this issue? I can't call them evil, nor immoral. But I can call them a threat to society in which I live in. In order to grow and live peacefully, I cannot permit such actions. So I will condemn them on this basis alone. 

And this is where we differ, you call them threat to society but that is only your opinion. A Nazi officer may think that the Jews are the threat to society. Who are you to decide you are correct and they are wrong? If Nazi Germany had won the war, and US and Europe had been colonized by Germany, we would think that the Nazi is justified in doing those things in the name of peace.

(6) I don't see the problem by doing so. 

Well, then one should not hide under the premise of metaphysical concepts if one is only following materialistic worldview. You can not have a materialistic only reality while believing in Gender Equality and Morality. You cannot have a Naturalistic view and eat your metaphysical cake too. Unless you come up with a quantum mechanics explanation why this concepts exists, a physical reality does not contain morality. 

Since I believe in metaphysics of Morality and other similar concepts, therefore, there is a reality beyond Physical things, at least from my belief.

(7) Example? 

Watch the video. Though in fairness to Hitchens, he appeared to be not in his best form. I believe Dawkins could come up with a better counter argument.

(8) You can't call that a fact if not all humans agree on it like you've already demonstrated in your own argument. You just shot your own argument.

Truth is not based on consensus, so this is a logical fallacy. At some point in time, most of the Scientists believe that electrons evolve in the nucleus. But we all know that is not the case, since it is present like waves in an atom. What I'm pointing out is, I believe in objective morality, rape and other heinous crimes are generally considered bad.