Listening to the popular Swedish song from a few years ago called ‘Instruktionsboken‘, or ‘The Manual‘ in English, made me think about how to perceive morality. The song is about searching for the manual of life, without ever finding it despite desperate attempts. Does such a manual exist? Many people suggest that the manual is their respective religious book of morality, but that is not a convincing story to me. If not from religion, where can one find the true manual of life, i.e. where is the objective morality we are supposed to embrace?

Every time I try to derive where any kind of ‘objective morality’ could originate from, I end up at loose ends. In my opinion, one has to convincingly derive where a framework of morality would have arisen from fundamentally in order to claim objectiveness. Hence, I perceive the morality of life as subjective in nature, meaning that there are no true rights or wrongs in life. Morality, or ‘The Manual’, is not to be found when searching for it externally, morality originates from ourselves, meaning we create it subjectively and can only be found by looking internally.