RE: Euthyphro dilemma
October 16, 2017 at 11:01 am
(This post was last modified: October 16, 2017 at 11:02 am by henryp.)
I'm not following the dilemma. A big tree hogs all the water with it's giant root system and snuffs out a couple small trees. We don't assign good/bad to that tree. That's just how trees work. Personally, that's how I view humans as well. Rape/genocide/helping eachother isn't good/bad in some grand sense, that's just how humans work.
I would think the argument with God, is that some non-existent value system has to be introduced. For religious, it's rooted in God's will. God says humans matter, and there's some convoluted point system. To which people say "Yeah but, how come blah blah blah..." To which I say "If there's some magical being overseeing the universe, everything we know about logic/reason/etc... goes out the window. Who the fuck knows what makes sense in that reality. But it doesn't matter, because there's not a magical being overseeing the universe."
I would think the argument with God, is that some non-existent value system has to be introduced. For religious, it's rooted in God's will. God says humans matter, and there's some convoluted point system. To which people say "Yeah but, how come blah blah blah..." To which I say "If there's some magical being overseeing the universe, everything we know about logic/reason/etc... goes out the window. Who the fuck knows what makes sense in that reality. But it doesn't matter, because there's not a magical being overseeing the universe."
