RE: Anslem's argument is sound.
October 25, 2017 at 9:45 am
(This post was last modified: October 25, 2017 at 9:54 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Then you're using "great" in a moral sense as well..so there's no point in castigating another for it.
Why is it not "great" to be infinitely destructive? Surely a creature capable of more destruction than any another creature is meaningfully greater? If you like, we can cut to the chase. Short of some non-arbitrary metric, your use of the term is an explicit invocation of your personal biases. How's that non arbitrary metric coming along...you ready to allow for it yet..........would you really maintain the above as a metric for "greatness" when we point out the gratuitous suffering magic book claims fairy god inflicted upon christer fantasy world? It's own inconsistency and destructiveness?
Make the world, break the world. All is good, everything sucks. Do this and not that, no..scratch that, do that but not this..wait, nevermind I'm handing out mulligans for all the things. Is your god closer to my infinitely destrutive, and therefore greater, being...or your milketoast pushover of good behavior?
Why is it not "great" to be infinitely destructive? Surely a creature capable of more destruction than any another creature is meaningfully greater? If you like, we can cut to the chase. Short of some non-arbitrary metric, your use of the term is an explicit invocation of your personal biases. How's that non arbitrary metric coming along...you ready to allow for it yet..........would you really maintain the above as a metric for "greatness" when we point out the gratuitous suffering magic book claims fairy god inflicted upon christer fantasy world? It's own inconsistency and destructiveness?
Make the world, break the world. All is good, everything sucks. Do this and not that, no..scratch that, do that but not this..wait, nevermind I'm handing out mulligans for all the things. Is your god closer to my infinitely destrutive, and therefore greater, being...or your milketoast pushover of good behavior?
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