Is the ability to identify good vs. bad innate?
Natural law does show that for the most part humanity has basic principles they can agree on as wrong, regardless of culture, race, or location. However, you’re going to have those like Hitler whose ideals are somewhat away from the norm. To say that morality is innate and determined by our perceptions of it is to say that it can’t exist for any idea of morality held by one person will inevitably be opposed to that held by another person. Thus, saying it’s all relative doesn’t work. It is reasonable to assume that those ideas of what is Right and Wrong were placed in us by someone else, i.e. God, and that’s why natural law exists. However, if morality is dependent on us then again, morality cannot exist. For if morality is individual-dependent then that means one can’t say Hitler was wrong for he believed himself right. If it’s based on intent one must say Hitler did nothing “wrong” for he intended to do what he thought “good” as do all of us. That is the problem, what we think is righ
