RE: Is it true that there is no absolute morality?
February 23, 2017 at 11:07 am
(This post was last modified: February 23, 2017 at 11:09 am by Neo-Scholastic.)
(February 23, 2017 at 10:13 am)bennyboy Wrote:(February 23, 2017 at 12:53 am)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: Indeed. It has nothing to to say about the meaning or value of life. But "atheism" isn't a thing. People are atheists. Which means people who have no God. Ergo, people who have no known justification for believing that life has ultimate meaning or life has value. Unless you have one.
No?
Didn't think so.
People who have no God. . . Ergo, people who have no reason not to eat babies, rape children, and stick cactuses up their asses.
Oh wait, there is a reason. . . it just so happens that people (for the most part) don't LIKE doing any of those things. They like getting out of bed, acting like their day matters, trying to get laid and fed, and seeking pleasure.
"Because it's in our nature" is sufficient justification for us to do thing things that are . . . in our nature.
That really side-steps the issue, at least with respect to moral nihilism. Having preferences and natural instincts are not the same as having obligations or moral prohibitions.
(February 23, 2017 at 11:05 am)Khemikal Wrote: Steve already did us the honor. You can join the conversation at any time, you know.
If you feel compelled to eviscerate that one, there will just be another...and another....and another, so on and so forth, ad infinitum.
Perhaps, but what is yours. C'mon step up to the plate.
