Is all morality subjective?

“Consider the contemporary debate over eating meat. For many, vegetarianism is a subjective preference, akin to liking spicy food. For others, it has undergone moralization and is viewed as a strict ethical duty. However, even the most ardent vegans rarely view meat-eating with the same category of absolute, historical condemnation that we reserve for transatlantic slavery.”

“We behave as moral realists when the stakes involve immediate, physical harm to humans, but we lean toward subjectivism when the stakes involve purity, tradition, or emerging ethical frontiers.”

“We dynamically shift our ethical framing depending on the topic, treating some issues as absolute, universal laws and others as flexible, subjective conventions.”

“Mackie's famous Argument from Queernessen.wikipedia.org, presented in his seminal work, Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong (1977).”

“Epistemological Queerness: If we were aware of such values, it would have to be through some strange faculty of moral intuition, entirely different from our ordinary ways of knowing about the world (like sensory perception or scientific inquiry).”

“Metaphysical Queerness: If objective values existed, they would be entities, qualities, or relations of a very strange sort, utterly different from anything else in the universe.”

“To answer whether all morality is subjective, we must distinguish between where our moral beliefs come from and whether those beliefs refer to objective truths.”