RE: Objective morality as a proper basic belief
June 27, 2017 at 1:25 pm
(This post was last modified: June 27, 2017 at 1:26 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
@Qwraith
An objective morality -can- tell you not to kill and simultaneously compel you to war. There's no need to flip flop on the issue. I think a more salient observation of the moral status of god in reference to those commands were -why- god told them to do what they did. In each and every case, they had it coming™. Yes Katie, even the women and children.
We're not actually disputing objectivity, we're disputing the objective fact of their having had it coming. We're criticizing any morality, subjective or objective (or otherwise), that includes sex trafficking and genocide as righteous reprisal or preemptive war or..more commonly, a legitimate real estate business model.
An objective morality -can- tell you not to kill and simultaneously compel you to war. There's no need to flip flop on the issue. I think a more salient observation of the moral status of god in reference to those commands were -why- god told them to do what they did. In each and every case, they had it coming™. Yes Katie, even the women and children.
We're not actually disputing objectivity, we're disputing the objective fact of their having had it coming. We're criticizing any morality, subjective or objective (or otherwise), that includes sex trafficking and genocide as righteous reprisal or preemptive war or..more commonly, a legitimate real estate business model.
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