RE: My views on objective morality
March 27, 2016 at 6:40 pm
(This post was last modified: March 27, 2016 at 6:44 pm by robvalue.)
It's no more objective than using "kill everything that moves" as a moral code.
It's objective in that it (potentially) doesn't change; and indeed, is external to humans. The first point is more important, really. If it was external to humans but changing all the time on the whim of some alien, then that wouldn't be objective, except by taking snapshots. So it's assuming God doesn't change his mind about stuff. The bible has God changing his mind all the time, so I don't see much support for that.
They imply that it's the best moral code, but they don't say that. So instead they make out like it's the only one; which is why it becomes garbage and a factually incorrect statement. They don't say best, because then they have to define what best is in a non-circular way, and without making God redundant in the whole thing. Can't be done, in my opinion.
It's objective in that it (potentially) doesn't change; and indeed, is external to humans. The first point is more important, really. If it was external to humans but changing all the time on the whim of some alien, then that wouldn't be objective, except by taking snapshots. So it's assuming God doesn't change his mind about stuff. The bible has God changing his mind all the time, so I don't see much support for that.
They imply that it's the best moral code, but they don't say that. So instead they make out like it's the only one; which is why it becomes garbage and a factually incorrect statement. They don't say best, because then they have to define what best is in a non-circular way, and without making God redundant in the whole thing. Can't be done, in my opinion.
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