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 we all have this idea that objective morality exists, otherwise we would not be arguing about it. Even scripture says that every knee will bow in the end in recognition of God and His perfect justice.
              I hope that this brief paragraph has helped to explain this dilemma, even if it was a dilemma to begin with. May God bless you and have a good rest of your day!
References
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/excellent-beauty/201712/morality-is-objective
https://www.allaboutphilosophy.org/moral-argument.htm

             

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