What Does "Objective" Mean With Respect to Morality?

Should you think about your duty, or about the consequences of your actions? Or should you concentrate on becoming a good person?

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Veritas Aequitas
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Re: What Does "Objective" Mean With Respect to Morality?

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Peter Holmes wrote: Sun Feb 28, 2021 7:51 am Same mistake.
Factual premise: Humans are programmed to live until they inevitably die.
Moral conclusion: Humans should live until they inevitably die.
Why should humans live as long as possible, or at all?
Is it a fact that we should live as long as possible, or at all? What makes it a fact?
Have a go at really trying to answer those questions.
Btw, I did not claim,
Moral conclusion: Humans should live until they inevitably die.

Re morality, what I claimed is the justified moral fact from the moral FSK, i.e.
'no human ought to kill human[s]'.
Note what is critical here is the moral FSK.

It is a fact that ALL humans are "programmed" to till the inevitability of mortality.
That fact is represented by what is programmed within the human brain and the body.
Example, all humans are programmed to breathe, search and eat food, defend oneself, avoid threats of death, etc. to ensure survival. These can be verified empirically.
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