You're claiming that it's impossible based on?
Morality is based on desire.
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Let's say I like X, whatever X is I'm going to incorporate it into my life because it is pleasing to me. That is a desire because what is pleasing to me is what I want to be around. Now say X is opening the door for someone before you go in. I find this to be pleasing, so I desire to do it, yet at the same time this is considered a morally right decision I have made in the eyes of the whole. If you took a poll of if x, y, and z were what is considered the "Right thing to do" you would get the same pattern of answers depending on where in the world you asked these questions. We would all like to believe it's nice to hold a door open for someone else, or its nice to help the elderly, or clean up your local park. ETC. I think were debating this the wrong way. It's not that its one or the other, its both. Morality is both subjective and objective at the same time.
What you and what the whole believes to be morality might be the same thing, but most often it isn't. There are widely different cultural differences for what is morally right and wrong as well. For example, the middle east has very little women's rights, yet this is a normality for their culture, and to us in the west, can be seen as a travesty to freedom. Whoever is right or wrong is irrelevant, but the difference in perception of good is what's important. Last example, the people of India find it immoral to eat beef. They highly revere the cow for being the most giving animal. We here in the west have debates whether its ethical to eat beef, but it solely comes down to you and your choice because of freedom. As I stated above I Morality is both subjective and objective at the same time.
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