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Originally Posted by xepherys
Is the empirical evidence that murder is wrong? Abortion? Theft? Abuse? Polygamy? Hate? Blashpemy? What that is considered morally wrong is there empirical evidence to support?
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Playing a little bit Devil's Advocate, but is there empirical evidence that gravity (for example) actually works the way we write the equation?
My belief is that gravity is an approximation, and includes some manner of the truth. Within certain limitations, gravity is a good fit for our interpretations of our perceptions of external stimuli with
a priori theoretical assumptions. We say it works "close enough." Gravity itself does not exist, in my understanding. We create gravity out of our interpretations. This does not make gravity, or more precisely the phenomena we think we perceive and attribute to gravity, "false" or "unreal," but it does make it a dynamic concept that we use to orient our knowledge. I would argue that we do the same with morality and ethics.