You seriously appear (to me at least) to be saying that morality is what the majority of the people around you--or at least the people who had the teaching of you as a child--tells you is moral.
"...morality is *all about* what we're told--morality is tribal."
That IS what you meant by that, right?
So I think my objection holds water.
Now there are people who think that morality does work this way; I have seen people argue--to all appearances seriously--that, for example, slavery was moral when most people believed it was.
If you're one of those people we'll have to agree to disagree on whether the morality of slavery, or women's freedom, or gay marriage, is really affected by majority opinion.
But if you think morality is *not* in fact changed by majority opinion, then it follows "morality is what we're told" has got to be wrong sometimes.
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Date: 2011-06-29 06:13 pm (UTC)"...morality is *all about* what we're told--morality is tribal."
That IS what you meant by that, right?
So I think my objection holds water.
Now there are people who think that morality does work this way; I have seen people argue--to all appearances seriously--that, for example, slavery was moral when most people believed it was.
If you're one of those people we'll have to agree to disagree on whether the morality of slavery, or women's freedom, or gay marriage, is really affected by majority opinion.
But if you think morality is *not* in fact changed by majority opinion, then it follows "morality is what we're told" has got to be wrong sometimes.