Zoot said:
I believe in subjective morality and I act on subjective morality. How is that incongruous?
And you also believe that all moral "beliefs" are equivalent: not one of them is superior or inferior. No right or wrong.
Therefore, you could just as well have different moral convictions, that it wouldn't be worse at all.
Likewise, there is no action which is better or worse than any other, objectively speaking.
One has to wonder why someone with such a belief would have subjective moral values, anyway. Afterall, what are they based on, when you recognize there is no objective morality, and that each set of moral conviction is no better or worse than any other?
You don't think opinions exist?
Let me explain the situation with an analogy:
Two people disagree on whether a circle is happy or unhappy. Objectively speaking, the circle is neither.
The persons may have any opinion on the matter, it doesn't change the fact that it is meaningless, realistically speaking.
You think that way about morality. People have their opinions on what is good and what is bad, but you recognize that it doesn't exist in reality.
And yet you live by a set of moral convictions.
You know that the circle is neither happy or unhappy, and yet you base your actions on your "belief" that it is, let's say, happy.
Such can only be the result of a feeling overriding what you believe in with your intellect.
Actually, I'm using feeling in a somewhat improper way. Maybe it would be best to say a "hard-wired" knowledge of yours, which the abstruse reasoning behind the conclusion "morals are not objective" cannot overcome.
and no group of moral convictions can be said to be superior to any other, and hence it is useless to have any.
How do you figure that? Values seem unavoidable, to me.
Ah, but whether they are unavoidable or not has no bearing on the importance of having them.
Since you recognize they are not based on anything that is real, were you to live according to that knowledge, you would go over your feelings and have no moral convictions.
Thankfully, your natural knowledge of morality overrides your wrong conclusion (that morality is purely subjective).