RE: One sentence that throws the problem of evil out of the window.
November 7, 2017 at 11:56 pm
(November 7, 2017 at 11:35 pm)Mathilda Wrote: I quite understand· Sometimes one wants a conversation with the adults without the children interrupting about how their favourite superhero will save the day.Hell, he's not even riding in to save the day in this thread. Just handing out goodies...to some of us, at least, but not always to the people who've suffered.
Quote:If it helps, I wrote a post on TTA back in 2014 about how subjective and objective were of limited use when talking about morality, but all the theists ignored it. I might stick with this in the future rather than push that it is only subjective.An objective moral theorist would make -minor- alterations. That human beings as moral agents are necessarily subjective, and hold many disparate subjective moral opinions, but that this doesn't mean that morality is subjective by definition, meaningfully subjective, or that none of our moral claims could be objective.
Quote:Is morality subjective or objective? The question does not make sense.
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Morality is by definition subjective but we can apply objective methods for determining what is consistent with our morality. But it gets more complicated than that when we ask why we have the feelings and emotions telling us what is good and bad. Because we have evolved them. The problem is that this is now out of scope of the original question. You can no longer apply the words 'subjective' or 'objective' to the process that gave us personal feelings, tastes and opinions.
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