Morals are objective

I do not think that there is no such thing as moral rights and wrongs, I think that everyone has a different set of beliefs on what is right and wrong. I do not believe that either side is an absolute though, but that laws and actions are usually determined by the most popularly shared moralities. So, does morality exist? Well, people seem to have a sense of what they believe is right and what they believe is wrong, so morality does exist. How do we decide what is moral? If they are objective, then by what standards? Simply, morals are subjective. They are dependent on how you are raised, what is around you, etc. This is caused by an important development that we have, empathy. Empathy was important in the development of mammals as the need to care for babies is a priority with mammals. With empathy we learn to understand and share the feelings of another. So, what happens when you start to understand and share feelings with another? The golden rule forms, "One should treat others as one would like others to treat oneself," also stated like, "One should not treat others in ways that one would not like to be treated." Morality is not that much of a jump from this. Let's say morals have not formed yet. I do not want to die, you do not want me to take your stuff. We then agree not to kill and not to steal. Let's say I meet someone I like, I want to be cared for, they want to be cared for, so we decide to care for each other. So, how do they become morals? We want to (or do not want to) be treated a certain way, so we treat others the way we would want to be treated. This is why morals seem to be different over the world. In some places polygamy is immoral while in other places it is perfectly acceptable. So why does murder, rape, stealing, etc. seem to be immoral all across the globe? Because they are issues that are easily agreed upon by people. They just happen to be some issues that are agreed upon by a large majority of the population, but they are not held by everyone. Some people do not find murder immoral, some do not find rape immoral, and so on with other morals. But how can we tell that morals are subjective and not objective? Well, we must look at the world around us. We look and see people have morals, so we must decide if they are objective or subjective. If they are objective that means that one of the answers on questions of morality would be correct, but how do we know they are? Judging them based on our own morals? Doesn't that just prove that those morals are shared between the parties involved? We must also try and find out by which standards are things moral/immoral, but we can find none. We have nothing to support that morals are in fact objective. When we find nothing to show objective morality is correct we must look again at the people. What do see in people's moral codes? You see people with different moral codes, expected when morals are subjective. We see that there are even people that do not agree with the common moral beliefs, which also makes sense with subjective morals. We also see that certain questions on if something is moral or not cannot be answered and supported (example, is homosexuality moral or immoral). So why should we believe that morals are subjective? The moral codes of people fit with the structure of subjective morality while there is nothing to support an objective morality. Source: http://greatergood.berkeley.edu...