RE: My views on objective morality
March 16, 2016 at 2:48 am
(This post was last modified: March 16, 2016 at 2:48 am by Whateverist.)
Maybe it isn't all that unreasonable. I mean, I'm no objectivist myself but maybe it isn't a logically challenged position to think -even from within our entirely subjective points of view- that there are at the very least a set of best moral practices .. which no one is constrained to agree with. I could think that these best practices exist even if I myself can never be sure I have them exactly right. So I don't think C_L's position is deeply flawed. i just don't think it can be justified adequately for an impartial judge to agree.
The existence of objectively best moral practices is something people can reasonably disagree about. It isn't as brash a claim as belief in an omni-everything, intergalactic watch maker, but it is equally poorly supported. Sometimes I wish theists would just leave it as a profession of faith and forget about all the arguments and apologetics. In many cases I find they don't so much want to argue that atheists are wrong in their disbelief as they want to argue that the belief they have which separates us is reasonable too.
The existence of objectively best moral practices is something people can reasonably disagree about. It isn't as brash a claim as belief in an omni-everything, intergalactic watch maker, but it is equally poorly supported. Sometimes I wish theists would just leave it as a profession of faith and forget about all the arguments and apologetics. In many cases I find they don't so much want to argue that atheists are wrong in their disbelief as they want to argue that the belief they have which separates us is reasonable too.
