RE: pop morality
January 30, 2016 at 4:43 pm
(This post was last modified: January 30, 2016 at 4:45 pm by Nihilist Virus.)
Sub species:
A taxonomist decides whether to recognize a subspecies or not. A common way to decide is that organisms belonging to different subspecies of the same species are capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring, but they do not usually interbreed in nature due to geographic isolation, sexual selection, or other factors. The differences between subspecies are usually less distinct than the differences between species.
So even though the Jews were scattered throughout the world, they generally did not interbreed with gentiles (sexual selection criteria of subspecies met); and also Africans were originally geographically isolated. Therefore Hitler, presumably being a self-proclaimed taxonomist, made the necessary determination that Jews and Africans were indeed of a different subspecies than the Nazis.
So I didn't read it carefully before, but now yes, it's clear that Hitler perverted science to further his agenda. As you note, the scientific community does not divide humanity into different subspecies.
I find it regrettable, though, that you won't take a firm stance on your moral absolutes. Please respond to this:
1. The Jews made 600+ Do and Don't laws
2. These laws were very specific (don't cook a goat in its mother's milk?!)
3. These laws covered minor and major offenses (and punishments were applied accordingly)
4. The Jews were aware of what rape is (there was the rape of Dinah, the rape of Tamar, and the dusk-till-dawn-rape-to-death of the levite's concubine in Judges 19)
5. There is no law against rape
6. There is no law against pedophilia
7. There is no law against fornication (unless one of the parties is married/engaged, in which case it is adultery)
So I find a remarkable coincidence here. We savage atheists have no morality, absolute or otherwise, and therefore our favorite pastime is of course raping babies. Yet your absolute morality does not outlaw this behavior, so you have no actual way of knowing that it is wrong. You can't admit that you know raping babies is wrong, because if you do then you admit that the atheist and the Christian both invent their own morality.
A taxonomist decides whether to recognize a subspecies or not. A common way to decide is that organisms belonging to different subspecies of the same species are capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring, but they do not usually interbreed in nature due to geographic isolation, sexual selection, or other factors. The differences between subspecies are usually less distinct than the differences between species.
So even though the Jews were scattered throughout the world, they generally did not interbreed with gentiles (sexual selection criteria of subspecies met); and also Africans were originally geographically isolated. Therefore Hitler, presumably being a self-proclaimed taxonomist, made the necessary determination that Jews and Africans were indeed of a different subspecies than the Nazis.
So I didn't read it carefully before, but now yes, it's clear that Hitler perverted science to further his agenda. As you note, the scientific community does not divide humanity into different subspecies.
I find it regrettable, though, that you won't take a firm stance on your moral absolutes. Please respond to this:
1. The Jews made 600+ Do and Don't laws
2. These laws were very specific (don't cook a goat in its mother's milk?!)
3. These laws covered minor and major offenses (and punishments were applied accordingly)
4. The Jews were aware of what rape is (there was the rape of Dinah, the rape of Tamar, and the dusk-till-dawn-rape-to-death of the levite's concubine in Judges 19)
5. There is no law against rape
6. There is no law against pedophilia
7. There is no law against fornication (unless one of the parties is married/engaged, in which case it is adultery)
So I find a remarkable coincidence here. We savage atheists have no morality, absolute or otherwise, and therefore our favorite pastime is of course raping babies. Yet your absolute morality does not outlaw this behavior, so you have no actual way of knowing that it is wrong. You can't admit that you know raping babies is wrong, because if you do then you admit that the atheist and the Christian both invent their own morality.
Jesus is like Pinocchio. He's the bastard son of a carpenter. And a liar. And he wishes he was real.