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Confusions on Morality - What's really Good And Bad moral values. by menesheh(m): 3:12am On Jun 26, 2015
The world is now a global neighborhood and advancing faster. Moral practices in far China affects someone in the United States directly or indirect. Same with every nooks and crannies of the world, made possible by Internet, huge international air and sea travel, telephone etc .

If a bomb explode in MAIDUGURI, it will generate heat from different countries of the world. In Afghanistan, Pakistan, Muslims in the United Kingdom and United States etc will take it as a religious obligations while in Japan, china, Congo (mostly other religious believes) etc will see it as hideous act.

Moral actions in a community or country may be immoral in the other. Explicit image or scene in china is immorality at its apex while such in the UNITED STATES is a way of life.
Simply put, morality is man's concept of do and don't, defined by the society you live in.
The question is, Are we better off with :

Subjective morals values
-Christian Bible morals?
- Muslim Quran morals?
-Traditional morals?
-Others


Secular objective morals
Based on observable Phenomena; Presented factually

Subjective moral is simply when such moral is a gift from god or by emotions to a society without rationally and objectively based it on observable real world nature of things.

Objective: Of or having to do with a material object.
Having actual existence or reality. Uninfluenced by emotions or personal prejudices: an objective critic.


For example, critically discussing and debating about
circumcision to arrive to a more befitting conclusion, looking at those harms, health aspects of it can be term objective moral values
WHILE
forceful imposition of circumcision without formal discussion and debate over its benefit, harms, health, plessure etc to a population either because it is inscribed in a holy book(by God: allah, jesus, gods) or out of emotions and bias(totalitarian leader, elites, king, monachy and higher authorities etc) can be seen as subjective.

As an atheist i strongly support and advocate for secular objective morality to subjective moral values.

What's your take on it, reasons for and why does it matter?

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