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The Nature of Morality

"There is no moral phenomena at all, only moral interpretation of phenomena"-Nietzsche

Morality is often thought of as a state of being, a phenomenon is moral or it isn't, however, this common assertion is false.

Ontologically speaking, to say that a phenomenon "is" or "is not", means you are making an observably factual claim regarding the nature of that phenomenon's existence. The essence of an ontological claim is in the idea that the claim will hold true regardless of whom the observer may be. In short, ontological claims do not take into account the qualitative biases of the observer.

Morality on the other hand, is a matter of perception not observation. As such, morality acts in much the same way as a photographer’s filter. A regular photograph uses directly observable information (light) to create a 2-D translation of a subject. When a photographer uses a filter, he is in essence, changing the information provided in order to give the subject a certain quality, which it would not have otherwise possessed. As a perception, morality is just like the photo filter. It provides our observations with a quality that they alone do not posses. We use morality as an instrument to change the quality and context of an observable phenomenon.