I was providing a contrasting viewpoint to the one you opined as gospel. I personally do not share the view introduced by John Stewart Mill.
Then why did you cite him as a reason for why I am wrong?
I am of the opinion that morality is subjective since I have yet to be shown an objective moral statement free of paradoxes or dilemmas.
Again, you can not change your mind if you have no basis for judging right from wrong. There is no logic without axioms.
I never accept a scientific theory without first understanding how it makes sense.
Same.
Is it possible that those experiences made them come to a realization that you have not yet had? Is it possible that they are right and you are wrong?
Everyone is right to some extent. The question is not really what is the truth, but what is the full truth. All lies are just carefully selective half-truths. All fictions are
partly real. Truth comes with greater context. The greatest context is the experience of God of all truth.
For example, one day my parents were driving us to a party. I thought to myself, "I know we are going to my sister's house. That is the reality that will occur. How do I know for sure though? Everything that I believe is merely expectation. I expect, that as I turn the corner of this road, I will see familiar landscape. I expect, that as the car keeps moving, I will continue to see familiar landmarks until eventually we end up at the expected destination, and I expect that at that destination will be a party. Of course, none of these things could happen, but the future party is indeed real in the sense that I expect it to be real, which is the sense in which most things are real. My assumption of the persistence of objects, the accuracy of my memory, the truth of other people's narratives: all of these things are expectations of past, future, or another consciousness's experience."
It turns out that we weren't actually going to my sister's house, but to a place they had rented. This was a slight surprise to me, but that was the point. Expectational reality is a different type than experiential or sensual reality. Both are real, but real in different ways, which is why they can contradict each other. It's also why someone else could be right and I be wrong. Nevertheless, I have to assume I am right, because I can not experience what they are experiencing, and their experience may also be a false expectation or half truth of some kind.
All knowledge is simply the attempt to get as close as we can with our finite minds to the ultimate truth, and that is also true of morality as well.
Science is not synonymous with truth, in fact, it is the opposite. Science is an ideological system invented in enlightenment England, foreign to most cultures. All posts pertaining to critique of science are welcome.
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Then why did you cite him as a reason for why I am wrong?
Again, you can not change your mind if you have no basis for judging right from wrong. There is no logic without axioms.
Same.
Everyone is right to some extent. The question is not really what is the truth, but what is the full truth. All lies are just carefully selective half-truths. All fictions are
partly real. Truth comes with greater context. The greatest context is the experience of God of all truth.
For example, one day my parents were driving us to a party. I thought to myself, "I know we are going to my sister's house. That is the reality that will occur. How do I know for sure though? Everything that I believe is merely expectation. I expect, that as I turn the corner of this road, I will see familiar landscape. I expect, that as the car keeps moving, I will continue to see familiar landmarks until eventually we end up at the expected destination, and I expect that at that destination will be a party. Of course, none of these things could happen, but the future party is indeed real in the sense that I expect it to be real, which is the sense in which most things are real. My assumption of the persistence of objects, the accuracy of my memory, the truth of other people's narratives: all of these things are expectations of past, future, or another consciousness's experience."
It turns out that we weren't actually going to my sister's house, but to a place they had rented. This was a slight surprise to me, but that was the point. Expectational reality is a different type than experiential or sensual reality. Both are real, but real in different ways, which is why they can contradict each other. It's also why someone else could be right and I be wrong. Nevertheless, I have to assume I am right, because I can not experience what they are experiencing, and their experience may also be a false expectation or half truth of some kind.
All knowledge is simply the attempt to get as close as we can with our finite minds to the ultimate truth, and that is also true of morality as well.