bennyboy Wrote:Mister Agenda Wrote:Even with objective morality, it is possible to have conditions in which you can't have one good without allowing a greater evil. That is the position CL thinks God is in, if I'm understanding her right. I'm pretty sure the Catholic version of God's omnipotence doesn't include overcoming paradoxes. God can't make a square a circle without making it 'not a square'. I'm sure CL accepts the leg of theodicy that says God is omnibenevolent, probably the 'maximally benevolent' version. It therefore follows that God cannot, due to his nature, do anything in a given situation that is not the maximally benevolent thing. That means in every situation where it might appear that God is not doing so, it is because we do not have all the information; which God, in his omniscience, does.
Read what you just quoted me saying. CL has claimed that rape is objectively evil. However, CL and you are implying that there are some cases where allowing a rape is necessary because it serves the greater good. So in that case, rape is in fact NOT objectively evil: it would be evil not to allow the rape.
Objective does not mean 'absolute'. Two things can be objectively evil, and one of them can objectively be more evil than the other.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.
