RE: There Is No Sin!
March 23, 2018 at 7:08 pm
(This post was last modified: March 23, 2018 at 7:08 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(March 23, 2018 at 6:55 pm)Khemikal Wrote: It would seem like an obvious point..but regardless of your beliefs on the matter of evolutionary biology..our actions do matter - they have consequences, and our moral systems inform our actions.
If the only sense in which it mattered was how those systems informed our actions and the pursuant consequences of those actions..it would matter plenty enough. This is, conveniently, the "consequentialist" position.
We -just- went over the answer to your question...didn't we?
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