My views on objective morality
March 13, 2016 at 3:54 pm
(This post was last modified: March 13, 2016 at 4:00 pm by LadyForCamus.)
::bold mine::
It Doesn't follow! Your first premise claims that if a God could create morality from nothing then he could make torturing an innocent person forever morally right. You then go on to say that it's not morally right in any possible word that such an act could be considered moral. I think you refuted your own premise with your personal, subjective opinion that it could never be "right" in any world to do such a thing to an innocent person.
And anyway, in order for any of this to have any practical meaning I'd have to just accept the assertion that objective morality exists in the first place, which I don't, because no one has demonstrated that it does. How are you supposed to demonstrate any specific attribute of objective morality when you can't even demonstrate that it's a real thing in the first place? That's like me saying "this argument is going to prove that my unicorn is pink, not green."
Quote:It means if it's possible a Creator can create morality without it already existing, it can decide what it is. (Sure, okay)
If can decide what it is, it can decide it's good and right and moral to torture a being for no crime forever and ever. (not sure how you are defining 'good' here, but alright.)
However this doesn't assert that it's actually possible such a Creator to exist.
It's not in any possible world the case that it is good to torture a being forever and ever for no crime. (why not? Because you say so?)
It Doesn't follow! Your first premise claims that if a God could create morality from nothing then he could make torturing an innocent person forever morally right. You then go on to say that it's not morally right in any possible word that such an act could be considered moral. I think you refuted your own premise with your personal, subjective opinion that it could never be "right" in any world to do such a thing to an innocent person.
And anyway, in order for any of this to have any practical meaning I'd have to just accept the assertion that objective morality exists in the first place, which I don't, because no one has demonstrated that it does. How are you supposed to demonstrate any specific attribute of objective morality when you can't even demonstrate that it's a real thing in the first place? That's like me saying "this argument is going to prove that my unicorn is pink, not green."
Nay_Sayer: “Nothing is impossible if you dream big enough, or in this case, nothing is impossible if you use a barrel of KY Jelly and a miniature horse.”
Wiser words were never spoken.
Wiser words were never spoken.
