(August 18, 2017 at 10:40 am)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:(August 18, 2017 at 9:16 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: Wow, you haven't been paying attention to Khemkal at all.
Maybe I am missing something but I am trying. Kiel is saying that if people acting on the assumption that everyone had equal valve simply because they are human. That's fine but is not better than a Christian saying because people are made in the image of God. Both statements rest on unsupported claims. In his case he calls for a rationally consistent evaluation between human beings. That's not saying much. He hasn't shown why human beings are existentally equal other than appealing to empathy. And I do not see how that in anyway undermines my earlier demonstration. He's arguing in a circle.
Image of god? For one thing, it's better because there is no proof of a god, and then morality is just whatever somebody decides what their god wants.
"The last superstition of the human mind is the superstition that religion in itself is a good thing." - Samuel Porter Putnam