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a bad person
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RE: a bad person
(December 6, 2015 at 10:50 am)Sappho Wrote: If there is no god, then there is no universal moral law, which means morality can be reduced to a social construct coming from an evolutionary goal to protect the species, but nonetheless adapted to our modern society.
False, if there is a god, it doesn't care about humans. Theism being true or false has nothing to do with the nature of morality. The world can be absurd with a god. This is coming from me of all people, a moral skeptic who has very low opinion of morality.

Quote:Why then do we call people bad when they break such a rule, other than they do something which is arbitrary forbidden by previous generation. 
(for instance look at: cultural differences)

Assume I have no opinion here.
Expression of approval and disapproval aiming to motivate other people to not do something or to stop something. Also most people are moral realists. I'm not but most people seem to be.
It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all. - Denis Diderot

We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing. - Gore Vidal
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a bad person - by Sappho - December 6, 2015 at 10:50 am
RE: a bad person - by DespondentFishdeathMasochismo - December 6, 2015 at 10:59 am
RE: a bad person - by Sappho - December 6, 2015 at 11:02 am
RE: a bad person - by rexbeccarox - December 6, 2015 at 11:01 am
RE: a bad person - by DespondentFishdeathMasochismo - December 6, 2015 at 11:04 am
RE: a bad person - by Sappho - December 6, 2015 at 12:22 pm
RE: a bad person - by Homeless Nutter - December 6, 2015 at 11:11 am
RE: a bad person - by Sappho - December 6, 2015 at 12:44 pm
RE: a bad person - by Homeless Nutter - December 6, 2015 at 1:05 pm
RE: a bad person - by Sappho - December 6, 2015 at 1:20 pm
RE: a bad person - by Whateverist - December 6, 2015 at 11:48 am
RE: a bad person - by Sappho - December 6, 2015 at 12:49 pm
RE: a bad person - by abaris - December 6, 2015 at 11:58 am
RE: a bad person - by Cato - December 6, 2015 at 12:19 pm
RE: a bad person - by Sappho - December 6, 2015 at 12:41 pm
RE: a bad person - by Minimalist - December 6, 2015 at 1:02 pm
RE: a bad person - by Sappho - December 6, 2015 at 1:11 pm
RE: a bad person - by DespondentFishdeathMasochismo - December 6, 2015 at 1:25 pm
RE: a bad person - by Sappho - December 6, 2015 at 1:52 pm
RE: a bad person - by Pizza - December 6, 2015 at 2:00 pm
RE: a bad person - by Sappho - December 6, 2015 at 5:08 pm
RE: a bad person - by Whateverist - December 6, 2015 at 7:30 pm
RE: a bad person - by Sappho - December 7, 2015 at 8:21 pm
RE: a bad person - by bennyboy - December 7, 2015 at 10:22 pm
RE: a bad person - by Sappho - December 8, 2015 at 7:26 am
RE: a bad person - by bennyboy - December 8, 2015 at 7:54 pm
RE: a bad person - by bennyboy - December 6, 2015 at 9:53 pm
RE: a bad person - by Heat - December 8, 2015 at 1:13 am
RE: a bad person - by TheRealJoeFish - December 8, 2015 at 1:23 am
RE: a bad person - by Sappho - December 8, 2015 at 7:42 am
RE: a bad person - by Neo-Scholastic - December 8, 2015 at 7:59 pm

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