Originally posted by seer
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what I'm asking is what moral opinion or moral goal is not subjective?
I'm also asking why one moral opinion or moral goal is more correct or valid than its opposite? You are so wise Jin, these questions should be easy for you to answer.
And ethical questions are seldom easy. This is why there are entire departments of academies spilling ink about this question. People have written and wrestled with end of life decisions, jury nullification, whether empathy is sufficient or even if empathy is a problem, animal testing for medicine, if it's possible to lose human dignity, treatment of mental patients, I could on...
Thing is, I don't really think you're in on this conversation though. Even if you truly wanted adjudicate between what one moral goal is and another, you'd have to have some curiosity about the subject. I think you want to scream 'subjective' at anything and everything right now. It's seems to be a way of saying 'just an opinion' and therefore wrong or something. Yet you fail to understand that this definition of 'subjective' would apply to everything and thus makes it so vacuous and banal we might as well say "is he a true athlete? He can't be because he breathes air."
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