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Who decides what morality is?
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* That’s an equitable question. I refer to Shakespeare, “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”. Morality therefore is agreed, by mutual consent. An artificial construct. Protocols engineered by society, defined by cult(ural) values. Each cult(ure) agrees on a set of rules, employed, in the exchange of social interactions.
* This is a false question based on numerous presuppositions that need to first be hashed out. If morality is objective then it requires grounding in ultimate being. If morality is subjective then it is ultimately meaningless. Stoics classically grounded morality in Zeus aka ultimate being, reason and Logos. In modernity we like to discard ultimate being, making morality subjective and meaningless. Ergo what we are left with the claims of the Sophists whom Socrates argued against.
* That’s the thing. It’s not decided. Morality should be applied on a case to case basis. That’s why you need education and formation, so that when the time comes for you to deal with morality, you have the mental tools to take, hopefully, the best decision in real time.
* The Words of the Creator, Which is God.
