RE: Morality versus afterlife
January 11, 2016 at 4:18 am
(This post was last modified: January 11, 2016 at 4:20 am by robvalue.)
Orange: You're asking why I'm scared that you'd kill your son if you heard a voice in your head telling you to? I'm scared on behalf of your sons, if you have any, because I have empathy. I'm scared because all it would apparently take is a hallucination you deemed to be "God" telling you murder, and you would. I'm worried that you would totally abdicate all moral responsibility to another agent.
So yes, moral autonomy. And your entire absence of morality in this instance sets off warning lights in my sense of morality. "Moral" has clearly got nothing to do with human wellbeing anymore if anything God tells you to do is "moral". Is there anything you would refuse to do, if he ordered it?
I'm not saying you're objective immoral for holding such a position, because it's a nonsensical concept. I'm subjectively of the opinion that it an amoral way to act, at best.
So yes, moral autonomy. And your entire absence of morality in this instance sets off warning lights in my sense of morality. "Moral" has clearly got nothing to do with human wellbeing anymore if anything God tells you to do is "moral". Is there anything you would refuse to do, if he ordered it?
I'm not saying you're objective immoral for holding such a position, because it's a nonsensical concept. I'm subjectively of the opinion that it an amoral way to act, at best.
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