Morality
One of my friends was rather depressed to hear my views on morality. Not sure what got us on the subject, but she pressed it so I gave her my overall assessment: that in reality, all actions are amoral. The implications for this are pretty clear. It is not "wrong" when someone stabs another person. There is nothing about the physical act, the physical reality, that is wrong with it. So why is murder considered wrong by a great majority of people, spanning cultures and time? Most people don't want to be stabbed. Moral rules are really nothing more than our own desires restated in a different form. I don't want to be mistreated, shot, robbed, lied to, hurt, cheated on, or used, and thus I label them all as wrong because they work against my desires. There is no absolute standard written in the stars for us to discover. Even if there is a god, that doesn't demand an objective morality. It would still be subjective. It would merely displace the problem to god. What god decided was right and wrong would be right and wrong, but that would merely be a subjective system being imposed on us by a more powerful entity. What are the implications of this realization? How does one justify one's morals? I don't have any answers, and perhaps that's the cause for my seemingly constant discontent. My friend said she would pray for me. I'm not sure what to think about that. I appreciate the fact that she cares, but I can't shake the feeling that her prayers aren't being heard. I don't know, perhaps I should sleep more.