Topic: There are no such things as absolute moral values.
For: Othin
Against: YK


Judges: maraj, Dez384, Inui

Start at 12:01 Forum Time on Jan 31

Morals are what people believe to be right and wrong. The only people who necessarily share the same moral values as other people are ones who have the same religion, and even then most religions are interpreted multiple ways, leading to even more sets of moral values. The only way absolute moral values could exist, therefore, is if one denomination of one religion was considered the correct one. And what would make one religion more valid to be considered the universally correct one?

Nothing. Many religious people claim to have experienced personal connections with the god of their religion, and thus believe that their religion must be the correct one, but many religions have that argument. They can't all be right, so that argument is meaningless, and most other arguments for something like that being true have the same problem. Nothing can prove any religion to be more true than all the others, or even that any of them are true. With no one absolute religion, where could absolute moral values come from?

Nowhere. Absolute moral values are impossible.

YK failed to respond. Othin wins.