Sutton Dagger
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The Christian God is absolute and unchanging. Morals, in my worldview, are a reflection of his character, his very nature, and are therefore absolute by necessity. He doesn't make the rules, he is the rules. That is how they are absolute and that is why we, creatures created in his image, are subject to them.
That's fine that you've chosen a different place from which to derive your morals. I won't argue that morals derived from science are terrible or always wrong or anything like that, but I do think it's quite absurd to claim that they are objective, for the reasons I've stated as well as Kinitari's very well reasoned post.
Also, when you say "may actually objectively (using our acquired knowledge of well being)" you are basically saying, "may actually objectively (using subjective criteria X...)."
Yet you didn't demonstrate 'by what right', Quo warranto (or God's existence, but that's beside the point).
Do you think that it's possible for someone to live in utter misery, plagued by chronic pain and mental anguish? Do you also think its possible for someone to be in peak physical health and cognitive 'bliss'? Do these two ends of the spectrum in anyway relate to physical processes in the brain?
p.s I'm trying to be consise as I'm on a phone and going to bed.