Morality is subjective

Thank you for challenging me Con. I will begin with my view. My opponent wants me to make a difference between morality and moral interpretations. I believe there is no difference. Your own interpretations of what is moral and what is not is your morality. My opponent has not shown the difference from what I can see. Morality is so vague. All we know about it is that it is a "conformity to the rules of right conduct", but is there any definite way of knowing of what actions are moral and which ones aren't? No. Most religions claim to have a moral code but there is no agreement on what is moral and what is not moral on any action. My opponent argues that morality is universal. If this were so wouldn't we all have the same thoughts morally about everything? A person learns morality from its environment and from its reactions as it does everything else. You are told what is moral and what isn't from others and then form your own thoughts and opinions on it. You also learn morality from your own experiences and then interpret what you've experienced to form your own unique moral code. Because there is no absolute moral code, your own moral experiences must be your morality. Responses: "morality lies outside of the human subject." Where then does it lie? Human consciousness? Then why isn't there universal agreement on a moral code? With God? But if you look from an unbiased standpoint and look at all the religions that claim their moral code is the right one and disagree with each other, how can you know which one is right? No religion has more or less evidence than the other as to whether or not theirs is right. Also, within religions their moral views conflict. I know a priest who thinks being gay is immoral and another who claims there is nothing wrong with it. "categorical imperatives" My opponent speaks a lot about these. I find this to be very vague. Could you explain what exactly these are and how they affect morality? "(A) Different PERCEPTIONS of morality exist."- I agree. "(B) There is only one TRUE morality."- Where do you find this? What is it? "(C) On earth, different moral INTERPRETATIONS do not indicate an inconsistency in morality."- I disagree. I think different moral interpretations DOES indicate an inconsistency in morality. There is absolutely no final word on morality so your own beliefs must be your morality. My opponent wants to say difference in moral interpretations does not show inconsistency in morality. I say that it is the most important thing to consider in deciding whether morality is objective or subjective. If morality is formed by the person and people disagree on the same thing they are thinking about then morality is inconsistent. "(D) Finally, we cannot, epistemologically speaking, derive morality, or know exactly what the formulation is for an objective moral code. We can, however, attempt to conform to it as much as possible, and can, as Kant would argue, rationally distinguish between an a moral and an amoral decision (we could not linguistically determine why, but we could rationally justify it)."-If we have no idea what the correct moral code is, how can we conform to it? Yes would could decide is a decision is moral or not, but would everyone agree with the decision? I doubt it. Like I said: Inconsistency. "Morality CANNOT change." I disagree. My thoughts on what is moral and what isn't has changed as I've grown up and will change many times before I die. Has this not happened to you? I know people like pastors and other people who preach morals who have also changed their views during their lives. Not to mention society's and religion's stand on what is and isn't moral has changed though time. "Not one person can claim, either for or against abortion, that they are conforming to a moral code. They can provide their subjective *understanding* of it, but they cannot look up that, in Chapter 4, section IV.ii of the morality handbook, abortion is a violation of moral conduct." Doesn't this support my point? My point in a few words: 1. There is no absolute source to determine what is moral and amoral. 2. A person decides morality based on their experiences. 3. Nothing and no one agrees on morality completely. 4. If there is no way to know exactly what is moral and not, and a person decides on their moral interpretations from their experiences and no one universally agrees on what is moral and amoral, only what morality is, then morality must be derived solely from a person and is therefore subjective.