Example: I believe that IP is a direct contradiction of nature, sacrificing the advancement of humanity and the world for selfish gain, and therefore is sinful.

Edit: pls do not downvote the comments this is a constructive discussion

Edit2: IP= intellectal property

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  • phlegmy@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    I agree that some things can be objectively immoral, but I think there’s a lot of grey/subjective areas too.

    Is it objectively immoral to not spend 100% of your free time helping others?

    What about choosing to have kids instead of adopting?

    Turning someone’s life support machine off after they’ve been declared braindead?

    Killing a serial killer in an act of self defense?

    • balderdash@lemmy.zip
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      21 hours ago

      I can see your perspective, but I would argue that these are epistemological grey areas, not moral ones. Again, just because we don’t know whether something is true/false or good/bad doesn’t change the objective value of the fact.

      Of course, for non-normative facts about the world, we have the scientific method to help us to move toward the truth. (Note here that the epistemological problem reappears, albeit in a lesser form, as we cannot be sure whether science has reached the truth; the scientific method is always open to new and contradictory empirical evidence.) Recall, however, that most of human history lies before science. Left to our own observations, we believed in such theories as geocentrism and the four humors. Hopefully ethics and aesthetics will reach a science for determining the objective value of normative facts.