Originally Posted by
Oberon
What is your view on morality? Is morality universal (possibly also objective), or is it relative?
What do you think about utilitarianism?
I'll start.
I think morality is universal, and I also think its objective (although not really in the way most people think).
I think there's a set of certain laws that are true at every level of analysis - the physical, the social/sociological, the psychology, the chemical, the subatomic level etc.
I think morality is objective for this reason, and I think the 'best' morality or the one that best describes the moral landscape (whatever that is) can be found by looking for 'laws' of nature that are true in such a manner (occurring in sociology, physics/chemistry etc).
I think utilitarianism is a garbage idea that can be used to justify many great evils.