RE: On Moral Authorities
November 13, 2016 at 3:27 am
(This post was last modified: November 13, 2016 at 3:37 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(November 13, 2016 at 1:59 am)theologian Wrote: 1. Morality then is both made and not made in different sense. It is made in the sense of being a means and it is not made in the sense of being an end. That is so, because moral actions depend on nature, and nature is made by God, while the end of moral actions is God Himself, Whom is obviously not made.I think that you're tying your god dick into knots now, when it's probably best left in your pants to begin with. Is all of the above your subjective opinion, or your objective opinion?
Quote:2. I don't understand what you meant with objection of convenience. Care to demonstrate? Further, being unable to change morality is so compatible with relating morality to God as an end, for if God is the end of morality and God is unchanging, then it follows that nothing can change morality.Clearly you don't, since you're fielding yet another post chock full of them.
Quote:3. So, what are you trying to say then?That you need to learn to speak english. You just keep butchering it.
Quote:4. Well, that is simple. Whatever comes solely from the human person are subjective, but whatever comes from God or in God are objective.It's simple, alright.

Quote:5. Care to demonstrate why I believe what I believe regarding morality yet don't know?It's rather the reverse that's lacking. You believe, but don't know, because you cannot demonstrate.
Quote:6. You got it right that you may want to reference the wrongness of sexual abuse to the nature of man and nature of love etc. However, if we further ask, why do you refer the rightness or the wrongness of actions to nature? If there's no God, it will just be an arbitrary choice again. Hence, without God, there could not be an objective moral standard.If you think that rape would only be arbitrarily bad, as a matter of choice, if there were no god...then I see little sense in having a discussion with you about morality. You do not possess moral agency. You merely obey what you believe to be a gods rules.
Quote:7. I think I'm clear here to prove that even if one relates the goodness or the wrongness of an action to the nature, which is objective, the question why it has to be referred to nature, without appealing to God, will make again morality subjective. Hence, if there is no God, then there will be no objective moral standard.You probably think you're right alot of the time. In fact, it could even be a useful heuristic for you. Anytime you start to think that you've proven anything about a god or morality, you should take that as an indication of just how wrong you are. Meanwhile, I'll be over here, in easy possession of my own moral standard that tells me that rape is bad - regardless.
Quote:8. The question begging I was referring doesn't matter anymore, if I am wrong to assume that what you are pointing out is my inconsistency regarding the separation of objective moral standard and God, as what you are really pointing at is that what's the difference regarding explaining morality with or without God. Simple. If there's no God, even appealing to nature will make morality subjective, because one may ask that why appeal to nature and how about not appealing to it. But if there's God, it will be easy to know that what is moral is what makes us keep going to Him Whom is our true end, and so we can appeal to nature objectively, for nature obviously comes from God.You weren't referring to any question begging in the first place. They aren't magic words, you know, lol. If theres no god, you just keep saying. Let me show you how to properly leverage the identification of a logical fallacy. What you have, above, is a textbook appeal to consequences. If there's no god, then so what? Morality would be subjective? So what?
Would rape be any less subjectively bad than it is objectively bad, in your opinion, if it turned out you were just a superstitious cretin?
Quote:No. It's just about whether you hold rape is bad a priori either because it's just an opinion which is subjective by denying God's existence, or by considering that God truly exist and therefore one can easily show how moral standards are objective too.Meh, who cares about god...we're discussing morality? I'm not the one that needs there to be a god for rape to be bad. That's your bag.
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