Here"s my 2 cent:
I don't believe that right or wrong is completely just subjective. Murderers and pedophiles are pretty bad people. In fact, I don't think too many of them would even disagree with that assessment. There are just some things that people do that, because of simple human nature, just about everone can agree is immoral.
We can't say, however, that circumcision or going to church are all good or all bad because those are specific cultural/religious activities that benefit certain groups and not others.
Helping an old lady cross the street or saving a baby from a burning building, assuming that baby isnt Hitler that's good.
Someone dropped a quote that went something like "most violence has been done in the name of obedience and not rebellion" and I kind of agree with that in the sense that people will go to crazy extents to preserve minor rules even if it means killing others. Similarly, minor religious disagreements which, as a Christian, I think God doesnt really give much of a fuk about, have given rise to countless wars and deaths. It is therefore the disagreement on whether or not something is right or wrong that yields the most wrong that is being done in the world.
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