Why do you think human beings have so many different conceptions of what is moral?

[Anonymous]

The list of different moral opinions that have humans have is almost infinite. For example, the Aztecs believed human sacrifice was moral. We think that is crazy. Some people believe abortion is moral. Others don't. Some Catholics believe birth control is immoral. Some people believe socialism is moral. Others disagree. Some people believe homosexuality is immoral. Others disagree. And I mean in non-Western countries like Africa and India too. For example, in India killing a cow is immoral. For some Muslims, consuming alcohol is immoral. Why can't we agree on what is moral and immoral?

[Soteris]

There are generally two types of moralities. Objective and subjective morality.

Objective morality requires some form of test. For example, which option produces the "best" result. The point being that it does not matter who runs the test or how many times you run the test, an objective morality returns the same answer.

A subjective morality on the other hand relies on a persons own judgement. This means that asking two different people gives you two different answers on any given moral question. This by definition will always be unique to the individual in question.

The reason why there are so many different concepts of morality is because all too many people rely on their internal subjective sense of morality and not an external objective morality.

[Asker]

Can you provide a specific example of an objective morality that will consistently produces the same answer?

[Soteris]

Well lets for example create a morality system where we decide that saving human lives is a good thing and letting humans die is bad. Using that we can use this system of morality to select the choices where the fewest humans die as the "morally good" ones where as the choices that results in more human deaths are "morally bad".

It is not really effective in real life and an actual objective morality needs to be more comprehensive but it works as an example where you can mathematically prove if something is morally good or bad and produce the same results every time you run the same calculation.

[Anonymous]

Organized religions brainwash people so that they stop thinking for themselves. I honestly blame religions for all the discrepancies in ethical and moral standards that exist. If we were to take religions away, perhaps everyone would simply behave according to their own inner moral compass and we’d all be on the same page.

[Opinion Owner]

We honestly live in a world full of sheep who are disconnected from their own feelings and just follow doctrine blindly because of fear or pressure.

[Asker]

I don't think that is true. Organized religion has weakened over the last few hundred years and we are nowhere closer to finding a common morality. In fact, the decline of religion has led people to become their own gods, so everyone creates their own morality. You could argue if everyone adhered to the same religion, we could find a common morality through that faith.