RE: Objective morality as a proper basic belief
June 25, 2017 at 6:47 pm
(This post was last modified: June 25, 2017 at 6:53 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
There no requirement for morality to have deeper meaning, or divine meaning..for it to have meaning.
It matters to me, it matters to you, it matters to everyone. It matters to the believers, even if there -is- no god. It matters to people who do not even know that it matters, and to people and creatures who cannot possibly grasp what it is - because it determines how we treat them. This is enough.
I doubt your fact, there, at the bottom...though. The bible and it's inconsistencies are an irrelevance to any actual objective morality, nor would an objective morality ensure that every moral judgement is cut and dry. Moral disagreement would still exist, competing moral imperatives would still muddy the waters, sub optimal choice fields will still leave us with no moral course of action, and in some cases, a compelling interest to do the bad thing™will still seem to be sufficient to override moral concerns. The moral competency of moral agents will still be variable, and the moral culpability of competent moral agents will not be uniform for all moral actions or outcomes.
It matters to me, it matters to you, it matters to everyone. It matters to the believers, even if there -is- no god. It matters to people who do not even know that it matters, and to people and creatures who cannot possibly grasp what it is - because it determines how we treat them. This is enough.
I doubt your fact, there, at the bottom...though. The bible and it's inconsistencies are an irrelevance to any actual objective morality, nor would an objective morality ensure that every moral judgement is cut and dry. Moral disagreement would still exist, competing moral imperatives would still muddy the waters, sub optimal choice fields will still leave us with no moral course of action, and in some cases, a compelling interest to do the bad thing™will still seem to be sufficient to override moral concerns. The moral competency of moral agents will still be variable, and the moral culpability of competent moral agents will not be uniform for all moral actions or outcomes.
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