RE: Objective morality as a proper basic belief
June 26, 2017 at 11:30 am
(This post was last modified: June 26, 2017 at 11:37 am by Astonished.)
What I'd like to know is what possible justification anyone has for why they would even think that their deity du jour is a MGB (ignoring that everyone's definition of this is likely to be different) based on any holy text or just by looking at the world around us.
Khem, I already explained how you can insert whatever fucking base principle you want into your good/bad meter and just because they're fucking wrong as fuck doesn't mean that ISIS isn't using their misguided religion as their metric rather than well-being. I agree that well-being is the only sensible metric to use and for good reasons but you can't argue that there aren't different axioms or whatever that you can jam into morality machinery of your brain no matter how ill-fitting they are or how much damage they cause that machine. I agree that the DICTIONARY definition of morality should revolve around well-being which it very well might. Thing is there are lots of zealots who would disagree and their existence makes this caveat necessary.
But please, fucking enlighten me, since I can't see a way around the above.
Khem, I already explained how you can insert whatever fucking base principle you want into your good/bad meter and just because they're fucking wrong as fuck doesn't mean that ISIS isn't using their misguided religion as their metric rather than well-being. I agree that well-being is the only sensible metric to use and for good reasons but you can't argue that there aren't different axioms or whatever that you can jam into morality machinery of your brain no matter how ill-fitting they are or how much damage they cause that machine. I agree that the DICTIONARY definition of morality should revolve around well-being which it very well might. Thing is there are lots of zealots who would disagree and their existence makes this caveat necessary.
But please, fucking enlighten me, since I can't see a way around the above.
Religions were invented to impress and dupe illiterate, superstitious stone-age peasants. So in this modern, enlightened age of information, what's your excuse? Or are you saying with all your advantages, you were still tricked as easily as those early humans?
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There is no better way to convey the least amount of information in the greatest amount of words than to try explaining your religious views.
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There is no better way to convey the least amount of information in the greatest amount of words than to try explaining your religious views.
