RE: Christians take on the more nihilistic atheists
December 31, 2015 at 7:44 am
(This post was last modified: December 31, 2015 at 7:52 am by The Grand Nudger.)
If, for example...a little girl is drowning...I "should" jump in the water to save her. However, If I am mortally terrified of water....I may not be able to jump in and do what's "right". Should, as a term in moral context, does not crumple to nothing just because we cannot make the choice that needs to be made, or if, indeed....we cannot make choices at all. We are presented with such scenarios constantly. Where the right decision is one that, for myriad reasons, we are not capable of making. This is a situation already present in our moral landscape regardless of whether hard determinism is true, it is already incorporated within the concept of moral responsibility.
We may say, regarding the example above..that I "should" have jumped in and saved the girl. We also understand why I didn't, why I couldn't, and to some degree (that degree itself is open for debate) this has an exculpating effect on a moral summary of my actions.
We may say, regarding the example above..that I "should" have jumped in and saved the girl. We also understand why I didn't, why I couldn't, and to some degree (that degree itself is open for debate) this has an exculpating effect on a moral summary of my actions.
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