Is morality objective or subjective?

Should you think about your duty, or about the consequences of your actions? Or should you concentrate on becoming a good person?

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Martin Peter Clarke
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Re: Is morality objective or subjective?

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We'll have to see if a grown-up quotes you Skepdick.
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Skepdick
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Re: Is morality objective or subjective?

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Martin Peter Clarke wrote: Wed Jun 25, 2025 11:38 am We'll have to see if a grown up quotes you Skepdick.
We don't have to wait very long. A grownup (me) will quote me immediately!
Skepdick wrote: Wed Jun 25, 2025 11:22 am ...
Now that the wait is over what happens next? Does my H-index even matter?

Isn't the whole game of optimizing one's own H-index subject to Goodhart's law; or Campbell's law?

Play stupid games - win stupid (Nobel) prizes, I say.
popeye1945
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Re: Is morality objective or subjective?

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Biology/human consciousness is the measure and the meaning of all things, so morality as a meaning is subjective; these subjective beliefs and sentiments in human consciousness create or concretize in the outside world, so that objects and systems might reflect upon their creator/s. These objects/structures and systems relate in the same way that the word is not the thing; they are symbolic references to the properties of the mind, or think of them as biological extensions that come out of the very nature of humanity.
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