RE: Are some theists afraid of atheists?
August 17, 2017 at 11:23 pm
(This post was last modified: August 17, 2017 at 11:28 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
I didn't see any reason to offer any. You asked me where my schema began, I told you. In any case, there's no point in bickering with me about moral facts of the matter, since you wouldn't be disagreeing that there -are- moral facts of a matter, just..maybe, positing that my facts were the wrong facts or not those facts, etc etc etc.
No, a person valuing his own life for x wouldn't necessitate that he valued your life because you also satisfied those conditions x, unless he applied a rationally consistent valuation. Rational elaborations, like empathetic response, sometimes find themselves arbitrarily limited or not extended to all subjects to which they would, by their own descriptions, apply.
IOW, it doesn't always work, and people still make bad choices.
I have many reasons to conclude that you and I are existentially equal despite our vast disparities - those are my conditions x.
No, a person valuing his own life for x wouldn't necessitate that he valued your life because you also satisfied those conditions x, unless he applied a rationally consistent valuation. Rational elaborations, like empathetic response, sometimes find themselves arbitrarily limited or not extended to all subjects to which they would, by their own descriptions, apply.
IOW, it doesn't always work, and people still make bad choices.
I have many reasons to conclude that you and I are existentially equal despite our vast disparities - those are my conditions x.
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