>>13834629Those are kinda sorta timeless questions that are part of the mystery of human existence old chap. Can anyone really answer completely objectively what morality is based on?
This isn't my area of expertise but I can attempt a reasonable response... I suppose my morality hinges on researching tons of different spiritualities over many years and noticing how much of the time, they just made complete sense to me. Not all of the time, but often enough I would come across words that were remarkably similar to my own personal ideas. I suppose I could explain it simply like this... When we do good things, the world becomes more like a heaven and less like a hell. When we do bad things, the world becomes more like a hell. It also seems to be intrinsic if you had a decent upbringing to have empathy. But if you're intelligent, you understand empathy is not the be all end all, sometimes we need to take actions for the greater good...
Honestly I feel like I cannot do this ineffable subject justice. I'm rusty with my philosophy and explaining it isn't my strong suit anyway. Study Jung, Joseph Campbell, Jordan Peterson they can explain it better than I. Reason I say all spirituality should be respected is because when you hear people explaining the metaphors behind the stories, they are almost always profound. Absolutely profound wisdom about the deeper side of life. The type of meta thinking about life that psychedelics inspire. I prefer spiritualities though because it seems the big 3 religions have been so corrupted over the centuries. They don't usually teach the metaphoric multi-level meaning behind verses... Instead they usually teach a dogmatic literal interpretation which inspires retardation and robotic thinking.
When you don't take them literally, but instead metaphorically, you start to see repeating patterns cross cultural and cross temporal. Which means profound stories, archetypes, ideas are not simply relative. They have some objective grounding.
