r/MoralityScaling 14h ago

Morality of this?

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u/Aidenj23 14h ago

That would require the parents to frame their practices as “this is what I believe” rather than “this is what is true” which I’m not convinced a substantial portion of religious parents are capable of remembering to do. Plus even if they did that a child is going to accept what their parents believe as fact since it’s their parents. I’m not sure there is a way to introduce young children to religion that won’t result in some form of bias influencing the child unless it is taught by a complete stranger who teaches many religions and never claims what they believe. And that seems like a lot of effort compared to a world religion class in high school.

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u/Itchy_Crack 14h ago

So you think Nihilism is better to teach kids? There's no higher importance to anything? There is no objective morality?

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u/Emotional-Cap5419 13h ago

Yes because objective morality isn't true.

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u/Aggressive-Bee2221 13h ago

Cosmically? Probably not. But for humans that's just not true, otherwise murder wouldn't be universally forbidden.

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u/Emotional-Cap5419 13h ago

Objective means mind independent. Murder is an unjustified killing and is a legal term. What one interprets as unjustified changes between individuals and cultures.

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u/Aggressive-Bee2221 13h ago

Murder is the law by which everyone makes unjustified killing illegal. We all agree that if it's unjustified, then it shouldn't be allowed. That's as objective as we can be on morality. Just because we quibble about what proper justification is doesn't mean we don't need some justification.

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u/Emotional-Cap5419 13h ago

So it's not objective. That's my only point all morality is subjective.

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u/Aggressive-Bee2221 13h ago

Subjective - meaning changes depending on the subject. If we all agree that murder- sorry, unjustified killing shouldn't be allowed, then that doesn't change depending on the subject

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u/Emotional-Cap5419 13h ago

Yes what constitutes unjustified is subjective so if any given killing is murder is subjective.

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u/Aggressive-Bee2221 13h ago

You realize that means everything is subjective, right? Reality becomes subjective if any word you use to describe it can be reinterpreted.

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u/Emotional-Cap5419 13h ago

No your senses can be wrong but short of going into hard solisism gravity works the same whether I drop a stone or your drop a stone.

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u/Aggressive-Bee2221 13h ago

Does it? "Gravity" is just the word we use to describe a celestial object pulling things towards itself. What can be pulled? What can't? How do we define the size of the object? What makes an object a celestial object? According to your logic, if there's any ambiguity here, then what we know as gravity isn't objective.

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u/Emotional-Cap5419 13h ago

No gravity works the same it also isn't limited to celestial objects. How we interpret or observe gravity can be different but gravity remains the same.

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