#he's describing absolute vs relative ethics and he's got like 86% of it right I'd give him a B for Bitch stop talking

[lukas-dark-miracles]

Does morality come from within or outside ourselves?

That is a pretty central question in ethics isn't it? There are two sides to that conversation, one suggesting that morality is outside of ourselves - something that we've made to live in groups. Essentially morals would be mores - things we do because our culture demands those rules to be set in place. For instance, murder being wrong because if it wasn't you might be worried that a someone would murder you. It doesn't necessitate you believing in it, just asks you to conform. So that could also change depending on where you are.

The other side would be that we are inherently moral creatures with rules that we are somewhat born with. For example, we know murder is wrong inherently and not because society tells us it's wrong. While there may be times where it would be acceptable, we still shy away from it because we know deep down it is wrong.

Either way of looking at the question is somewhat wrong right? If we trust outside of ourselves and say that ethics are completely based on society then we aren't really able to say with any certainty what is 'right' or 'wrong'. After all, I think we can all agree there are times where society is wrong. We can be wrong.

On the other hand, if we say that there is a set of rules that are objectively what morality is - then how do you know those rules? Most people would look towards extensions that are outside of themselves to say this is how we know the standards which just goes back to relativism -or argue 'it is inherently known' ( we are born with morals) which doesn't seem right either.

Perhaps you could argue for God, and say that God grants us our morality, which I think resolves many of the pressing issues I said here - but it isn't any less unsatisfying of an answer and begs the question of how we know what God has set out.

So, in my opinion I don't quite know. I assume it might be somewhere in the middle - we are both products of our society and our society has some universal truths.