(August 21, 2013 at 6:43 am)discipulus Wrote: Interesting....
So you are telling me that no matter how health conscious you are, the health nut who exercises seven days a week and the lazy cheese puff eating obese gluttonous man will both die....
The health nut may live longer than the glutton, and the glutton may live longer than the health nut...
But they both die and are not judged for how they have treated their bodies and how they have treated others...
Is this what you are telling me?
Yes, and I'm also telling you that the time and manner of their death - and their life before that - is the "judgment".
(August 21, 2013 at 6:43 am)discipulus Wrote: But common consensus morality is simply might makes right, then you are left with cultural relativism. There is no escape.
For you must indeed be aware...that societies are simply collections of individuals at base. Many societies may agree as a whole that it is better to outlaw abortion and homosexuality.
You may have other societies that disagree, but if the former societies are strong enough to exert their influence over others and render any opposition to their legislation void, then the former societies are in the majority. They can even invade those societies they believe to be acting bad and evil and chastise them and try to persuade them to adopt their morality.
Is that how international standards of measurement enforced? "Your society divides the day in 30 hours, so we are going to invade you and force you to accept the 24-hr a day standard".
