Not sure why this got removed from 196lemmy…blahaj.zone but it would be real nice if moderation on Lemmy gave you some sort of notification of what you did wrong. Like an automatic DM or something

  • mindrover@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    Muslims say that music is Haram because it is said so in Hadith, does that make music objectively wrong?

    That is the exact opposite of what the above comment said. An objective view of morality would say that the “rightness” or “wrongness” of the act of making music is an objective truth. If music is “right”, then music is right, regardless of what Muslims or any other people say, and vice versa.

    It means you can’t come to a correct moral judgement just by taking a poll of the people around you.

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      9 months ago

      That’s literally exactly how all humans work. Our ideas is morality come from our peers, and culture. That’s all relative and very mutable.

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        9 months ago

        They sure do, we try very hard to get as close as we can to what an objectivist would consider ‘true’. But nothing in objectivism states that we will ever know what the objective moral truth is. How many stars are there within 100 million light years outside of the observable universe right now? We don’t know. We can’t know. But there still is a correct answer even though we don’t know it. Just as an astronomer might average the count of stars in a similarly sized region and make an estimate of the correct answer, humans will share ideas of morality and endlessly critique them in hopes of getting a closer approximation of what “moral truth” might be.

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          9 months ago

          The universe doesn’t exist in human terms though. Stars don’t care about genocide, or abortion. Black holes don’t care about gender or identity issues. I’m certain the universe does not exist on human terms, and human morality is only an idea that has meaning to other humans.

          I don’t believe there is a single valid, unassailable concept that can prop up the idea that objective morality is likely, or even possible.

          Would morality exist once the last human dies? Did morality exist before? It’s just a useless question.