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One sentence that throws the problem of evil out of the window.
RE: One sentence that throws the problem of evil out of the window.
(November 7, 2017 at 1:38 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: As an example, subjective morality means there is no correct answer to the question: "Is it good or is it bad to rape and torture and kill little kids?"
That's not what subjective morality means.  Subjective morality states that there are -many- correct answers to that question..not all of which agree with each other.

Quote:Objective morality means there IS a correct answer to the question: "Is it good or is it bad to rape and torture and kill little kids?"
and -that's- not what objective morality means.  Objective morality means that some objective thing about that act x, rather than the cacaphony of opinions above, is what makes x immoral.

Some moral questions in an objective framework -have- no "correct" answer.  No answer can be given objectively.  The set of answers to those questions are known as exclusively sub-optimal decisions. The territory of lesser evils. Those answers are given by way of necessarrily subjective (and often fuzzy or contradictory) metrics..... even from within an objective framework.
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RE: One sentence that throws the problem of evil out of the window. - by The Grand Nudger - November 7, 2017 at 1:46 pm

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