(January 6, 2015 at 12:42 pm)*steve* Wrote: What I'm saying, however, is that without some ultimate basis for them, any reasonable person could argue against them or even their elimination.Morality changes from culture to culture and generation to generation. There is no "ultimate basis" for morality.
Fucking a thirteen year old girl is considered immoral in our society, but in some cultures it is fully accepted. In the bible it is fully accepted.
There are no rules for morality, only laws that determine what morality should be. Note the phrase "should be", not "is".
You make people miserable and there's nothing they can do about it, just like god.
-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy
-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy
