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Objective morality as a proper basic belief
RE: Objective morality as a proper basic belief
(July 10, 2017 at 4:33 pm)SteveII Wrote:
(July 10, 2017 at 1:04 pm)Khemikal Wrote: Back far enough?  If there's any further back to go than what god does..then it isn't gods nature or what god does that defines morality..but whatever standard that gods nature or action conforms and adheres to..... and isn;t this what so many people have been trying to explain to you?

Okay, I guess, but that's entirely irrelevant to gods status as a moral thing, or any objective morality, so?

Why not?  Why do perfect love and compassion constrain god?  This brings up another interesting point..if god is simply -unable- to do evil..is he really moral, or just limited?  Plants aren;t capable of evil either.....but we don't generally consider them to be moral creatures.  It's pretty much a requirement that some being has moral agency - the ability to do and comprehend good -and- evil...for that creature to be called good..rather than simply amoral, like a tree.


Honestly....what are you doing....?

Still wondering what's wrong with harm...still wondering why your every example of a good action seems related to harm [4].......not wondering -at all- why you babbled about anything else.  I'm just mystified as to why you chose what you chose to deflect with.

1. If God's actions are constrained by his infinite nature, then that is the explanatory stopping place for morality.  Just as the meter stick in Paris confers the property of meter-hood on all other meters in the world but itself does not rely on the property of meter-hood to explain or ground the fact that it is one meter long, God's nature does not rely on the property of good to explain itself, but all other morality is judged by it. It makes no sense to keep asking "why" about the meter stick so likewise it make no sense to keep asking "why" about morality. 

3. Everything is constrained by its intrinsic nature--especially a being that possesses superlative traits. 

4. Define in a few sentences how, in your opinion, the basis or morality can be tied to harm. Otherwise I am going to waste time answering points I am not sure you are making.

"If God's actions are constrained by his infinite nature..."

By definition, something that is infinite is unconstrained. Your god has paradoxical qualities
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RE: Objective morality as a proper basic belief - by TheBeardedDude - July 10, 2017 at 4:36 pm

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