Genocide is wrong. In the view of the modern society, this idea is absolutely correct, and it is considered as a fact or truth to support the moral objectivism. But isn’t the “rightness” …show more content…
Saying happiness is better than sadness is like saying that earning profit is better than losing it, but this is not a general truth. The happiness for a person depends on his or her own mind. If a person thinks that staying at home and sleeping could make him enjoy the weekend, that’s the happiness for this person. However, if an active person is asked to stay at home for his weekend, it might be a sad thing for him because he would like to enjoy his weekend with his friends by hiking or having a party. In the end, the happiness and sadness of the same thing changes position, and the considered truth becomes a wrong one because the definition of happiness and sadness depends on people’s mind. For the same thing, a person might earn profits, but other people might loss profits; it depends on people’s minds instead of the fact or truth. Therefore, when the majority of people in a social era, a country or the whole world have the same opinion of profit’s gain and loss, a new moral rule is shaped because people would like to make their behavior of protecting profits look right. This means that the basic standard of morality is based on a standpoint of an individual, which makes morality