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Not to your definition of morals. Surely you can see that, right?



If your morals are immoral, sure.


What's your definition of immoral? and by whose standard? Outside of a religious context, morality can be very much subjective.


> Outside of a religious context

Or, outside of your religious context, more precisely.

One religion could think it's moral to treat non-believers like cattle, or kill them, and other religions think it's immoral.

Morality is the most subjective "objective morality" there is


Morality is not subjective. There are definitions of that are more correct than others. Otherwise laws and prosocial behavior would be impossible to define.


It is subjective. They are "more correct" from your historical context.

Assuming you're in a western nation, this means a Christian context.

Other nations and religions see it as immoral to eat pig or be homosexual. You might say they are "less correct" definitions, but that is from the Christian ancestry of which the western world was built from.

Counties that don't come from Christian roots, don't have the same moral definitions.




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