Morality is Real
Moral Realism Is Risen
Some don't even feel their actions are morally bereft -- in fact, they barely feel their own feelings at all, let alone feeling the objective truths inherent in secular, or sacred, moral revelation.
They barely feel their own feelings at all because they have no tolerance for dissonance, musically, or morally: At the first sign of conflicting feeling, whether from within or from without, they flee, as if they'd never heard of Schoenberg's Emancipation of The Dissonance -- preferring to feel nothing at all so that dissonance remains enslaved, unable to compel them.
And this is artistically bereft as well, for we all know the greatest composers know how to 'milk' a dissonance, stretch it out, indulge in it, so that the entire psyche is reformed by the end of it, whether by the resolution of the dissonance or otherwise...
The very feeling of moral obligation, or moral reality, is dissonant to those, who, growing up secular, or atheist, without a firm moral philosophy to guide them along a moral realist path, doubt every action they've ever made if morality is real, for they were sold a lie of personal preference being The Good, as if advantage over others were the only advantage, collective advantage being a myth, or apparition, and so they haven't been keeping track:
"Oh my god", they panic, "If there are objective moral rules completely unrelated to my personal aims or preferences, I'm at best batting 50:50 -- I'm going to hell!"
Which god is theirs, no one knows, not even them, for their pantheon is empty, raided by the mob.
Which also means, their hell is one of their own making, private, unknown to all but them.
Morality is objective.
Morality is real.
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adamgolding.ca
PS Charlie Kirk frequently argued that if you don’t believe in God, you can’t say The Holocaust is wrong objectively — this is of course untrue, conflating Theism with Moral Realism — but it IS true if you never actually read Philosophy, and those who have no such foundation are every bit as lost as Kirk contended.