RE: Christians take on the more nihilistic atheists
December 30, 2015 at 8:51 pm
(This post was last modified: December 30, 2015 at 8:59 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(December 30, 2015 at 8:45 pm)wallym Wrote:(December 30, 2015 at 8:22 pm)Rhythm Wrote: I don't know. I don't see any necessity in describing any of those actions as right or wrong. I don't include good or evil in those scenarios.
No, I couldn't say that I believed that.
We can choose to either help Carl, or not...and because we are moral actors, this would be an issue of morality. - You
Morality is "the extent to which an action is right or wrong." - google - brakeman
I don't understand how the bolded parts fit together.
Carl, previously, was about to be struck by a meteor. He is now simply a competitor in a fantasy football league. Let's not conflate those situations as though there were no difference, or pretend that we don't understand a difference between them, eh? To continue, whether or not it is right or wrong to help Carl, in either scenario...as expressed by ones own position, would be one's own morality. My morality includes potential meteor strikings but not fantasy football leagues.
It would be wrong not to help Carl avoid the meteor. Note that it doesn't actually matter if it objectively is wrong, only that I consider it to be so. That's morality. What you do in your fantasy football league, to me, has nothing to do with morality. A fantasy football league is not as fertile a "moral field" as a potential meteor striking which I am capable of preventing. Maybe your morality is different?
Just what about those statements, specifically, are you having a hard time piecing together? Which doesn't seem to fit with which, and why?
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