Objective morality
How can morality be objective? After all, the decision whether to apply it comes from the subject. Let’s say that morality comes from the Torah, then it is found (there are moral laws in the Torah). You still need an additional assumption (that you should indeed do what is written in the Torah) for it to become morality. This assumption makes it subjective, doesn’t it? After all, this assumption would not “exist” if there were not people who made it. It does not exist outside of them.
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According to this, the law of gravity is also subjective, because someone had to discover it for us to know it.
Morality is a fact like the law of gravity. It is binding on everyone and in this sense is objective, except that everyone has the freedom to choose whether to obey or not. The same is true of religious obligation (halakhah).
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