RE: What is 'objective' value?
January 11, 2016 at 4:00 pm
(This post was last modified: January 11, 2016 at 4:04 pm by Catholic_Lady.)
(January 11, 2016 at 3:16 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote:(January 10, 2016 at 10:12 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Unless of course intentionality is already an inherent part of reality.
And what would that mean, for intention to be an inherent part of reality? Even if God values human life, that's just one more agent's project. No, this doesn't get around the problem.
It's not just that God values life, and that is why life is sacred. It's that that is how we were made. It is the very nature of our being, and inherent to who/what we are. Like I said in my first post, in the same way that wetness is inherent to water, value is inherent to life. You can't separate the two.
Some people may not believe that the life of a black African (for example) is sacred, and will thus go around and kill them, enslave them, etc. But that is why doing such is objectively wrong... because life is objectively valuable. Even if a person thinks it's ok to commit genocide of blacks or whatever, genocide does not cease to be immoral, and the person who thinks it's ok is very much wrong to think that.
^That's what we believe anyway.
"Of course, everyone will claim they respect someone who tries to speak the truth, but in reality, this is a rare quality. Most respect those who speak truths they agree with, and their respect for the speaking only extends as far as their realm of personal agreement. It is less common, almost to the point of becoming a saintly virtue, that someone truly respects and loves the truth seeker, even when their conclusions differ wildly."
-walsh
-walsh
