(June 12, 2013 at 7:01 pm)Statler Waldorf Wrote: No, according to you we can set our own standards of justice; so if two standards differ one cannot argue that one standard is more just than the other since both are completely arbitrary and they are therefore equal. Even more absurd is the fact that you have now rendered the very concept of something being “unjust” impossible since each person is free to act according to their own arbitrary standard of justice, thus making everything and anything they do just; no injustice, no miscarriages of justice, it’s all justice. What a wonderful and yet completely incoherent world you’ve created for yourself.
Biblical morality is no less arbitrary than any other form. Even if we were generous enough to give the fiction credit as being more than that, the Bible merely reflects one being's opinions on what is moral and what is not, and the justification for his opinions is only that he holds them. Arbitrary morality is all that exists in reality, whether you believe in God or not.
Quote: So if a society determines its goal (final solution) to be a society devoid of Jews then it is moral progress to exterminate all Jews? Yikes.
It would be, according to Christianity, as the elimination of Jews was a Christian moral imperative for centuries.
