RE: Christians take on the more nihilistic atheists
December 30, 2015 at 4:52 pm
(This post was last modified: December 30, 2015 at 5:06 pm by henryp.)
(December 30, 2015 at 4:34 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Rob likely feels that morality requires a moral agent or actor. A meteor does not qualify. Similarly, I doubt that Rob hinges morality on who he likes. Whether or not Rob finds morality in the meteor, does not leave your bolded bit as all that's left of morality...frankly, the bolded bit probably does';t even approach what he's discussing with you.
I'm not trying to represent Rob's morality specifically. Just trying to draw the line where pragmatism ends, and morality begins in general.
Liking Carl can be replaced by a 100,000 word essay characterizing Rob's relationship with Carl, and why he doesn't want to see him hurt. But this seemed more efficient.
As for the Meteor not being a moral agent, that was the point. The motivations for protecting Carl from the agent and non-agent overlap until we assign the moral designation, and we move beyond the reaches of pragmatism.
The point being that morality is not the desire to prevent Carl from harm, it is about dictating how other moral agents should behave. I thought Rob was mixing those two ideas up quite a bit in his earlier posts, and I was trying to separate the two so we could talk more clearly.
