RE: What IS good, and how do we determine it?
June 19, 2015 at 12:27 pm
(This post was last modified: June 19, 2015 at 12:42 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
You're expressing moral subjectivism when you tell me to stop looking at it through my 21st century white american male eyes....and that it may have been okay for them, then, to tell the story in that way...ostensibly as opposed to how it's not okay now. See, you don't know the actual meanings of these terms and so you don't -know- when you're contradicting yourself...just as you didn't seem to realize that you turned into a moral utilitarian in defense of one of the articles of your faith -on the off chance (to you) that it wasn't true...................
Religion...poisons...everything..
You are contradicting your stated (but probably equally misunderstood) position of moral objectivism when you imply or suggest that anything that would be immoral now, could have been moral or amoral then. IOW, you -have- to condemn that narrative, even for them, if you would condemn that narrative today - even as allegory. Your comments seem to suggest that you don't think that killing someone for pulling out of his brothers wife is a very moral thing to do. Maybe I've misread you, and you think that doing so -is- good, is "right"?
To be very blunt....this -entire thread- and every thread like it that has ever appeared on these boards.... boils down to a fundamental misapprehension of morality and the terms used to classify it on the part of the individual who initiated the discussion with such a question. Why, why is it, that the faithful are so consistently misinformed about this particular subject? Why is this such a widely shared misapprehension? If I had to guess......I'd say it's because the people you've entrusted to provide you with intel have been -bullshitting- all of you, for quite some time. But perhaps you'd have some insight that would cause me to modify my summary, that would soften my suspicion?
Religion...poisons...everything..
You are contradicting your stated (but probably equally misunderstood) position of moral objectivism when you imply or suggest that anything that would be immoral now, could have been moral or amoral then. IOW, you -have- to condemn that narrative, even for them, if you would condemn that narrative today - even as allegory. Your comments seem to suggest that you don't think that killing someone for pulling out of his brothers wife is a very moral thing to do. Maybe I've misread you, and you think that doing so -is- good, is "right"?
To be very blunt....this -entire thread- and every thread like it that has ever appeared on these boards.... boils down to a fundamental misapprehension of morality and the terms used to classify it on the part of the individual who initiated the discussion with such a question. Why, why is it, that the faithful are so consistently misinformed about this particular subject? Why is this such a widely shared misapprehension? If I had to guess......I'd say it's because the people you've entrusted to provide you with intel have been -bullshitting- all of you, for quite some time. But perhaps you'd have some insight that would cause me to modify my summary, that would soften my suspicion?
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