| The default condition of morality is subjectivism. This state of conscience develops as a direct reaction to the phenomenon each individual entity encounters and the innate predispositions resultant of their genetics. A child with pacifist genes will observe a fight and feel anxious, and a person with aggressive genes will observe a fight and feel excited, and due to a freak of consciousness each child will perceive their respective judgments as facts that are true independent of our perception of them. Another phenomenon encountered by every entity are the various physical expressions of cultural values, whether hearing one's parents make a comment regarding a social norm, seeing persons practice this norm in public, or watching a person being punished for disobeying this norm. Children will develop moral opinions as the move through space-time, and these will very much depend on their innermost nature and whatever experiences they have along life's way.
Social norms themselves are a product of the collective being of the individuals comprising society in action over a long period of time – primordially, the experiences and innate predispositions of each person collide when they form into groups, and social intercourse throughout groups creates a consensus on which 'moral perceptions' will be considered valid by the community as a whole. Such consensus is possible because the bulk of humanity's innate predispositions are the same or are to some degree reconcilable in spite of their differences. Children, coming with their own set of innate predispositions, are never blank states – their genetics see to that – but they are highly susceptible to phenomenon upon being born, and systems formal and informal are in place to integrate them in the community's moral processes while they mature into young men and women.
. . . I was going to write more, but I doubt anyone will read this and I new to go wash dishes and sweep my room. Anyway, it's not evident from what I wrote above, by I am a moral objectivist.
Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
- Immanuel Kant |