Morality is Objective

Thank you bossy. Before I begin, I would like to remind voters that the BoP is on my opponent, so any propositions I make do not need to be proven, they simply need to be plausible.With that said:My proposition is that all the moral judgments we make are based upon preferences, and therefore, moral conclusions are purely subjective. To prove this, I will run through two examples.The first example I'd like to use isn't even about morality, but it is analogous in the way that it allows me to set up the system for determining moral subjectivity.You've got a red car and a blue car (same model, all other physical characteristics are the same, etc). This would be the fact of the situation. It is objectively true that one car is red and the other is blue. Now let's say you have preference towards blue. Based on this, you claim that the blue car is superior to the red car. Now, we know this is silly. We all know that red and blue are not intrinsically any better than the other, which is why we usually call this claim an opinion. This is a clear cut situation of subjectivity. It has a fact, the color of the cars, and the preference of the individual, which grants one car superiority in the eyes of the individual. The blue car is not actually, objectively any better than the red, it simply appeals to your view that blue is better. This pattern of fact and preference carries over to all questions of morality.Next example, this'll scale things up a bit. Let's say I toss a baby into a vat of acid. So, the true, observable fact is that I tossed the baby in. The preference is our love of babies, and our aversion to pain and death. The preference we have informs our conclusion on the morality of the fact, i.e. it was bad. But, love of a baby does not make its death objectively bad. How can we know this, you ask?The best way to tell if something is subjective is to imagine a different viewpoint, because subjectivity literally necessitates differing viewpoints. In the case of the cars, we can see this easily. One person prefers a red car, another person prefers the blue. It's possible for different preferences to exist, therefore any preference must be subjective, as it is related to a particular viewpoint. We know something is objective when the opposite is true. Everybody would agree that one car is red and the other is blue; as long as people are being honest there's no room for preferences to get in the way.So apply that back to the baby. There is no viewpoint that could dispute that I tossed the baby in the acid, therefore it must be an objective truth. If we keep an open mind, we can see however that there could be different preferences involved. Let's say there is an alien race that has a preference towards spreading death. They want everything to die, because they feel things are better that way. They only exist to give other people the gift. Now, this may seem extraordinarily odd to us, but we must admit that this is a different perspective, even if we don't think we could encounter an alien race like this.So, these things established, we know that the human and the alien would both agree I tossed a baby in acid, but because of their differing viewpoints (preferences), they would disagree on whether or not it was a good thing. And maybe you're thinking, "Yeah, and the alien would be wrong!" To which you should ask yourself, on what do you base that? The 'fact' that babies are precious, innocent things that deserve our protection? That justification clearly comes directly from your preference. Since the justification stems from a subjective view, the conclusion is subjective. One can try to reassert over and over again that no, killing babies is messed up, it's wrong! But at the end of the day, they'll keep coming back to the simple fact: it's wrong in your view, and you're just treating your view as if it were objective.I will be stopping here. I could go on, but I think my point is as made as it's going to be. Thanks for reading.