Well, it might, but can we measure it? Quantify it? What is the definition of morality and what makes that the definition? And why is morality useful? Why do we need it?

Length is defined as the distance between 2 points, the number of specific units that occupy that space. Length can be measured very specifically, and is also useful. We can use length and some math to determine an object’s surface area or volume without resorting to more tedious methods. So length is quantifiable, useful, and we know what it is for certain.

Happiness cannot be quantified (well, maybe, but we don’t have a good system now), but it is useful. Measuring happiness (using vague terms, like a 1–10 scale instead of a proper unit) helps us figure out what things are beneficial and detrimental to a person’s happiness. Furthermore, even if we can’t quantify it, we know what it is. Happiness is not quantifiable, but it is useful, and we know what it is.

Morality, however, cannot be measured, and we don’t exactly know what it is. Many different people have many different definitions of morality, and they don’t have a lot in common. Furthermore, we don’t know that morality is a useful thing to measure. Is morality even necessary? It’s not as if people would suddenly start murdering, stealing, etc. left and right without it. Crimes such as murder and theft undermine society; we cannot have a stable civilization and progress without criminalization of murder, theft, vandalism, etc. And I think that most people would rather live in our current civilization where these acts are criminalized than in one where they were totally acceptable. People don’t avoid these acts purely out of morality, they avoid them because they carry necessary penalties, and because they’d rather live in a stable society than in anarchy.

So, morality is not quantifiable, we don’t really know what it is, and we don’t even know that it’s useful. Compare this to other qualities, like my examples of length and happiness. That’s why I don’t think morality is really a thing.