RE: My views on objective morality
March 2, 2016 at 8:45 am
(This post was last modified: March 2, 2016 at 8:49 am by robvalue.)
That's a good point. We are often confronted with a theist making a false dichotomy: universal, agreed, exact morality or else random, arbitrary total chaos.
Of course, people don't develop their morality randomly. For the vast majority of people, they naturally work together and care about each other, even if that only applies to a small group around them (tribalism). Nor do people ignore each other's morality, their environment and limitations and just pick stuff out of the air. It's a ridiculous idea which just plain ignores reality.
All the theist is really doing is showing their ignorance, and being amazed by the fact that people do care about each other when they feel there's "no reason to"; positing magic as the explanation.
Of course, people don't develop their morality randomly. For the vast majority of people, they naturally work together and care about each other, even if that only applies to a small group around them (tribalism). Nor do people ignore each other's morality, their environment and limitations and just pick stuff out of the air. It's a ridiculous idea which just plain ignores reality.
All the theist is really doing is showing their ignorance, and being amazed by the fact that people do care about each other when they feel there's "no reason to"; positing magic as the explanation.
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