The Moral Argument for God

[Chad32]

Oxycontin can be good for one (a cancer patient, for example), but not for another (an addict).

But if your neighbor's son is molesting his own sisters, you're good with that?

You're gonna say no which means that we have agreed on the existence of at least one objective moral value. Others could be listed quickly.

So please explain how it can be true IN EVERY CASE that "something can be good for one, and not good for another."

Killing and stealing are pretty universally thought of as bad. Every culture has laws against them. Yet it's sometimes considered acceptable to kill someone who has you cornered and is coming at you with a knife, and to steal food if you're starving to death. you can get sympathy for those things, despite the fact that in general killing and stealing is wrong.

Molesting children is an acceptable practice in some cultures. Our good friends in Saudi Arabia call it boy-play. They are religious extremists, but they're our allies because they have oil. Can I think of a good reason to molest children? No. They can, apparently.