(March 22, 2017 at 12:21 am)MysticKnight Wrote: What is the opinion about? Is it things outside of existence or things part of existence?
Greatness is an opinion relative to the values of the person evaluating the given thing. To you, a shiny new bar of gold might be pretty great, but if I drop you in the middle of the desert the greatness of that gold is overshadowed by that of a simple bottle of water. How great a thing is is directly proportional to the current needs of the person doing the evaluating, it's not an inherent part of the object itself.
In this way, existence cannot be considered a component of greatness, for there are plenty of things that most people would be consider greater for not existing. An imaginary plague of locusts is deeply preferable to a real one, after all.
Besides which, you're sort of palming a card here, which is that if your argument goes that god is the greatest possible being, and greatness is enhanced by existence, there are actually two options, not the one you're espousing, which is that therefore your god exists. The other one is that you're simply wrong about god being the greatest possible being, assuming the second premise to be true.
You... you do understand that it's possible for you to be wrong about that, yes?
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