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Understanding Moral Opinions

1) Moral opinions are beliefs that can be true or false for individuals but are not universal, while moral facts can be proven universally true through reason and evidence. 2) Moral relativism views morality as subjective to individuals and cultures, while moral realism holds that some moral claims can be objectively true or false. 3) Forming moral opinions requires using reason to analyze situations from multiple perspectives, rather than just emotions, to determine which views have credence as moral facts.

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Understanding Moral Opinions

1) Moral opinions are beliefs that can be true or false for individuals but are not universal, while moral facts can be proven universally true through reason and evidence. 2) Moral relativism views morality as subjective to individuals and cultures, while moral realism holds that some moral claims can be objectively true or false. 3) Forming moral opinions requires using reason to analyze situations from multiple perspectives, rather than just emotions, to determine which views have credence as moral facts.

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Moral Opinion vs Moral Facts

How to arrive at moral opinions

Introduction

When we perceive the world, a person once said that the earth is flat and therefore represents
as fact but later proven wrong, it became merely an opinion. Others might say Rodrigo Duterte is our
president, although opinion but can be a fact too. These two variables associated on how we arrive in
making reason judgement in morality, but what is the classification between a fact and opinion.
Opinions is a degree of belief that can be true or false, a descriptive about what people believe. For
example, a declarative statement “matcha ice cream Is good”, true for me but not absolute for
everyone. it is an opinion that we can’t argued because everyone of us has a stance over matters. On
the other hand, facts are truth about the case something that can be proven true, facts such as
mathematical and scientific. This also arrives at a reason judgement in which an explanation for its truth
credibility as why it became a fact.

In relation to morality, Opinions might be instilled in subjective relativism, in which we opt for
our emotions and feelings or to cultural relativism, a cultural belief that its true but doesn’t apply to
everyone. As we research more on facts, we discovered Moral realism, it implies that there exist such
things as moral facts and moral values. In contrast Moral relativism concludes that there’s no such thing
as moral facts for example I believed that the Jew’s prosecution by Hitler is wrong but In the perception
of a Nazi-German citizen it is right. For a utilitarian view, killing one person for the organs to save 4
others in those who need, therefore can save many but killing a person is morally wrong. Moral opinions
cannot be universalized, and some moral opinions can be moral facts too. Right or wrong there are still
facts no matter and every interpretation of a fact there arises opinions because they are interconnected
and sometimes, they don’t. it is with the help of reason judgement that we can arrive at a moral opinion
because in reason judgement we analyze the situation not just our preferences our emotions and
feelings because some moral fact’s can’t be proven as I mentioned before that killing is wrong but we
can absolutely accept it is wrong through our reason judgement. For instances, you’ve accidentally killed
someone when a person tried to rob your house and kill you, it is justified that you’ve defended
yourself.

In conclusion, some of our beliefs are true and some are not. Facts sometimes became subjective “to
see is to believe” if cannot be prove then it’s not a fact for you but it’ a fact there a million of stars for
scientist in the galaxy. We shouldn’t just recognize a moral fact or moral opinion which could be true or
wrong but be able to scrutinize situations on your perspective and the counter part back up by reason
judgment.

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