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Even warfare and genocide, while consuming vast numbers of people under Hitler, Stalin, and Mao, is less a threat overall today than in the past if one takes into account the percentage of the world’s population, rather than the raw number of people actually killed. For those unfamiliar with history, this is particularly true in the case of the Thirty Year War between Protestants and Catholics which is believed to have reduced the population of Germany in half, or in the depredations of Atila, Gengis Khan, or of colonialism. In the case of the latter, the Congo saw its population halved under the stewardship of Belgium’s Leopold II, and the Americas saw the reduction of the indigenous population by war and disease to less than 10% its former number.
To say that the "morality" of mankind has become reduced or has increased is absurd. Mankind is a history of individuals who dwell in mediocrity, monetary worth, and primitive workings. There are few areas within all of our history which stand to mark a life that was worthwhile. They stand in the minds of men like Socrates. This discussion as far as I can see is not one of much thought as the human condition directs us to an obvious answer. The majority of humans who have lived throughout history were men who lived for unworthy causes and possibly survival. Of course exceptions are among us.
To judge morality and its motion in regards to humans we must look at humans and their nature. We can see that whatever findings on the relationship between humanity and their choices we are looking at a constant; a set relationship of human morality. As humans are one thing: HUMANITY or MANKIND, the morality of HUMANS does not increase or decrease but rather stays the same throughout all of this one constant called MANKIND. How are you to judge or refute my claim? Cite examples from history to examine the human condition and you will find a science of repetition and redundancy, of mediocrity and crime. We are looking at a constant, a constant cannot change, mankind cannot change as it is what it is, humans. Humanity cannot transform into another life form or object, it is judged on the entire group and history of humans. This discussion is therefore absurd because of the consistency of human nature which is directly observable.
To all the Sophists who insist on saying that morality is subjective: You prefer a lifestyle which requires no thought.
Sophism (saying that subjectivity is in all forms of thought pertaining to ideas and understanding) produces the inability for any semblance of truth to be attained. A perfect model or ABSOLUTE exists which defines every idea; we strive for this perfect model in all of our action for knowledge and truth, without it we have no reason to understand, acquire knowledge, search for truth, and therefore LIVE as a human being who can reason and think.
SOPHISM IS DEAD, Plato killed it.
Stop saying that what is moral is subjective. Morality is not subjective.