(March 14, 2016 at 8:09 am)LadyForCamus Wrote:(March 14, 2016 at 4:24 am)robvalue Wrote: This is another way of presenting the problem with "objectively morality" based on god. It probably has a name, but let's call it Probvalue's dilemma
Would you do absolutely anything god told you to do?
If no, your morality is not based solely on God.
If yes, you're a highly dangerous person who could turn into a mass murderer after having a hallucination.
I suspect that most people who say "yes" are actually thinking "no", but they realize that saying "no" will invalidate their beliefs. Only those who are prepared to utterly dispense with their humanity would follow any command blindly.
Or they will say "God would never ASK me to do anything immoral like kill someone," which is just them projecting their own subjective feelings onto God.
Yes! Perfect. I've heard this cop out many times. So the person already knows what is immoral and what isn't, and god has nothing to do with it. The fact that they often can't even consider the hypothetical for a second (some people really can't) shows how firmly their subjective morals have been plastered all over what they think is god.
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