Absolutely. To say that morality isn't objective, isn't devaluing it.JimC wrote: However, it is reasonable to argue strongly against religious types who insist that faith in a divine being of some sort is the only valid source of morality.
Morality may not be an objective phenomena in the same category as gravitation, but it does arise from an important confluence between hominid co-operative impulses and logical reasoning.
We all share the morality that we've evolved. So things are right and wrong, as far as WE are concerned.
Just because our morality is subjective to the feelings of humans, that doesn't mean we shouldn't care if someone is a serial rapist of children. We SHOULD care, because we ARE human.
Although some pedophile priests might disagree though.
