RE: Religion is a poor source of morality
October 8, 2015 at 9:05 am
(This post was last modified: October 8, 2015 at 9:05 am by Edwardo Piet.)
robvalue Wrote:I don't accept you can measure health objectively, either. Unless you're talking about something as simple as life expectancy or something.
Measurement isn't a requirement for objective answers in principle.
There is objectively a difference between someone who is bleeding constantly from both eyes and someone who his clearly very healthy... these things can be measured objectively - but even if they couldn't it's irrelevant.
Once again the objective difference is all that is required in principle, it doesn't need to be able to be measured at all. Answers in principle are different to answers in practice.
Even if no scientist could ever measure the difference between someone bleeding from both eyes and someone who couldn't - fuck that would be a tragedy if no one could tell the difference - there still would be an objective difference in principle.
It's also like how there is still a big difference between food and poison, we don't need to be able to measure what are the very best and very worst foods health wise and all in-between and different food can be better for different people.... and importantly - once again - we don't need to measure at all. There are answers in principle.
