Can morality be objective when all we do is argue about what is right or wrong? Doesn’t that make it subjective by definition?
I have to give a shout out to the indirect inspiration from this post, I saw a comment while looking at social media and this question popped up on Capturing Christianity’s page. I wanted to try and tackle this question myself. Christians argue that we have objective moral values and duties (see the moral argument for God’s existence), yet Christians have debates over what is moral to do in certain situations. Just look at social media for proof of this statement. If we have to debate over what is moral because the objective moral duty is not obvious, does that make morality subjective? I want to explore this question with this post. We can look at this like we do scientific theories. There are plenty of competing theories about aspects of reality, but we do not say that science is subjective. We all have the notion that one theory will eventually win out and be the objective truth. We see this with morality. We may still argue over the details now, but