RE: Theists: Hitchens Wager
April 25, 2018 at 7:41 am
(This post was last modified: April 25, 2018 at 7:45 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(April 24, 2018 at 8:37 pm)chimp3 Wrote:Nullify the wager? Don't you think that reducing acceptable answers to superhuman abilities and denying any validity to motivation in a moral consideration does that? Hitchens formulation had no problem including motivations as a necessary consideration...and was at least answerable in principle.
I understand what Hitchens meant and I disagree. If we include motivation in judging immoral actions then we must include motivation in moral actions and we nullify the wager.
It wasn't arranged as a point from which to breathlessly deny the validity of everything put forward, but to compare differing motivations for moral acts and statements and a relative disparity between them that immediately jumps to mind in both the faithless and the faithful.
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