RE: Why it's important to know there is an objective morality.
March 11, 2016 at 9:58 am
(This post was last modified: March 11, 2016 at 10:03 am by The Grand Nudger.)
I'd caution against any strong conflation between morality and law. If the benefit of objective morality pertains to writing law, it's not much of a benefit, if at all. That's probably the most poisonous portion of gods "objective" morality, to begin with....the danger of having it represented in human law. Regardless of any god, or even of any objective or subjective morality, there are good reasons that we don't write or justify law based upon moral proclamations. We don.t say, for example "murder is illegal because murder is bad". We justify it;s legal status by reference to the rights of the victim, and the violation of those rights by the perpetrator.
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