RE: My views on objective morality
February 29, 2016 at 2:52 am
(This post was last modified: February 29, 2016 at 2:55 am by robvalue.)
(February 29, 2016 at 12:02 am)MysticKnight Wrote:(February 26, 2016 at 11:12 am)robvalue Wrote: OK thanks for your answer CL
I didn't understand it, but I appreciate it nonetheless. Words like "spiritual" don't mean anything to me. I don't understand how morality is anything other than a judgement. I really don't know what you actually think it is.
And thank you for your kind wordsI agree that psychopaths are problematic, and getting them to fit in with society is difficult. This is the one case in which I think religion has half a leg to stand on, but I still think there are better ways.
I'm sorry but I don't buy you don't understand it. I don't. I think you can tell there is a difference in a judgement of for example what clothes look better to wear and what action is more morally right. You can also "judge" what tastes better or not. Chocolate or vanilla. Pizza or Chicken. Etc... It doesn't matter which one in this respect. But morals do matter more specifically because they are of a certain spiritual nature. Albeit, some are not better decisions then the other, but will none the less give different spiritual hues often depending on which path of spiritually beauty we incline to ( I think you understand this perfectly as well).
CL was talking about "spiritual" this and that. No, I honestly do not understand what that means. I know what morality is, but I don't understand what CL thinks it is. Nor do I understand what you think it is. I find theists tend to slip between common sense definitions of morality and some weird magical version, to try and equivocate.
I've made it clear hundreds of times I don't know what "spiritual" means, and I've never received a definition that isn't just meaningless word salad. As far as I'm concerned, it's entirely metaphorical and has no basis in reality. I know you don't agree with that. If it makes you happy to think you know me better than I know myself, fine. But it seems you haven't been paying attention to what I've been saying since I joined the forum.
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