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Re:Parrots love playing tablet games. That's helping researc... by concordDance on Thursday March 21, 2024 @05:36AM (#39776475)
To "prove" is to derive from a set of consistent axioms. There is no set of universally agreed axioms for badness and in fact the vast majority of people do not even have a consistent set of moral beliefs. Simply changing how you phrase a question can get very different answers (e.g. "conscription" vs "murder slavery" vs "making people defend the country that defends them").
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Re:Parrots love playing tablet games. That's helping researc... by card_zero on Thursday March 21, 2024 @09:39AM (#39778386)
Yes. This doesn't mean that morality is subjective and divorced from reality, mind you. It just means that trying to hone an objective theory of morality will make you unpopular.
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Re:Parrots love playing tablet games. That's helping researc... by concordDance on Thursday March 21, 2024 @11:47AM (#39780088)
Depends what definition of "morality" you're using. Most are subjective and the remainder tend to be either descriptive, local (making use of the speaker, and their properties such as their culture, in their definition/meaning) or religious.
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