(January 21, 2011 at 10:15 am)dqualk Wrote: Sure void, set up your straw man. I could do the same thing you know, take what you say out of context and extend it further then you mean to take it, for example I could say man you don't believe in objective value, theVoid championing suicide since blah blah. I do not believe this, as I understand that one can have subjective value, and so on, but this is in essence what you are doing to me. And I understand there is a rule against doing such a thing, its to bad rules do not protect me. Do you even believe in the golden rule? Or is that one of those morals you see as subjectively useless, or at least when it applies to particular people?OK so try logically proving that morality is objective and then standby for the shitstorm set of refutations you will get back. If morality was decided or transmitted into the universe or whatever by an all powerful being, it is not only objective but also absolute. So why is it so hard to prove either of those things?
The golden rule is an excellent guide to morality and I congratulate Confucius on teaching it. It was much copied over the succeeding years including by those who wrote the NT and later attributed it to their demi god Jesus.
"I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence"...Doug McLeod.
