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Objective morality is a moral code of conduct that has consequences that exist outside the known universe and that can be applied the same to all people in all circumstances. The Ten Commandments are and example of what is intended to be objective morality. “Thou shalt not murder” is an example of something that most people will agree is always wrong, however there are several problems with this that don’t include the times the god of the bible told his followers to murder people. What is murder? Murder is killing someone without the need to kill them, killing in self-defense is not considered murder, killing in war is not considered murder but killing someone just because he said something mean to you is considered murder.

Let’s continue with the subject of murder and break it down to it’s moral basics. Defining the word murder in a way that separates it from other forms of killing is, in its most basic form, creating a moral standard around killing. Killing is the action, the reasons to kill are the morals. So saying that killing is ok in some circumstances but not in other circumstances is showing that the moral code is not objective, but subjective based around the circumstances. To clarify: if justification is allowed around the reasons one kills, then the action is not an objective moral.

Of course this line of reasoning is based around the concept that an action in itself is not moral or immoral. This concept derives itself from reasoning: when one discusses what is moral, one discusses the action itself very little and discusses the consequences of the action in great detail. This means that the action has very little to do with the moral decision, only the consequences. Of course the action is very important because, without the action, there can be no consequences. So in the commandment about murder, the morality is not the action of killing, it’s the justification for killing.

Now for the evidence. There is no evidence that there is any objective codes of conduct. None. Where do people get the Ten Commandments from then? From a bible written by men. Yes, the bible was written by men and not by a god. Men claim that the moral “laws” came from god, but the same commandments existed long before the bible came around, giving evidence that the god of the bible is either a plagiarist or the men that wrote the bible were. Not to mention there is no one coming back from the afterlife to let everyone know that a god did in fact give men a set of moral codes that have consequences after death. There is evidence that men wrote all the books of god, however there is no evidence that god had anything to with the books. The inaccuracies, contradictions, concepts in defiance with the known world and loss of material only serve as evidence that the books are not from a god, but from men.

Now a much easier question: how can one who blindly follows a set of morals without regard to situations, call themselves moral? In short: they can’t. They in themselves are acting without a moral conscience, they are acting out a script that was written for them. If god did tell them to always or never do a set of actions and those people acted without consideration of the consequences of those actions or inaction, then they themselves are not a morally conscious being. Those who act without respect to the consequences to their actions are immoral. So the question of their morality falls not to how they behave, but to whether or not it’s moral to blindly follow the rules of authority. In the case of the people who lied to Nazi Jew hunters, I don’t think that anyone would say that blindly following the authority of the Nazi’s would’ve been the good thing to do. So we can see that blindly following authority is not always good. So what makes following rules supposedly given by a god any different than rules given by other authorities? The answer is: blindly following authority means that you are acting immorally.

So how does one, despite the overwhelming lack of evidence, declare that objective morality exists? On faith. Because the “objective” morals themselves are subjective, there is no evidence that the morals come from some other source than humans and blindly following instructions is amoral: objective morality does not exist.

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