OT: Objective moral truth

[deccan]

Jack Simth said:
Wait, where was I going with this? Oh well, I got lost. No biggie.

Here's a simple way to organize all that.

In order to have an "objective morality", you must have an objective standard. With science, the standard is reality itself. If moral laws had the same sort of existence as laws of physics, then there would be no need to oblige people to obey moral laws. After all, one has no choice about obeying the laws of physics.

This is why any form of proposed "objective morality" seems to have really strange properties. They are not an ingrained part of the universe, like physical laws, yet they somehow "matter", are capable of bestowing moral obligation, must be accessible to moral beings and provide feedback to them on what is good and evil and have transcendental properties of timelessness and externality.