(September 5, 2018 at 11:57 am)Anomalocaris Wrote:(September 5, 2018 at 11:50 am)RoadRunner79 Wrote: I think that the answer is that morality is subjective until you call someone by the wrong pronoun, or refuse to bake a cake. And testimony is not evidence, until a rather shady character, testified under pressure against a president that you don’t like.
Morality is subjective. That doesn’t mean some subjective morality can’t through the mechanism adopted by a society to regulate itself be imposed also upon those who disagree.
Think of it this way, even though our morality is technically subjective, if you behave in some ways that you might think is not inconsistent with its being subjective, we will hang you. Got it?
So then you cannot accuse a state or a culture of immorality. You cannot appeal to rights, accept those given to you by the majority. There are no inalienable rights as stated in the U.S. constitution. There is no true evil, it's all dependent on the subject. I don't find that most who claim that morality is subjective, really act like this, when not discussing the ontology of morality. Then they become moral objectivity. Otherwise, they couldn't appeal to morality outside of the person, or in this case the group of people.
Quote:Testimony doesn’t convince me jesus rose again, because there is no evidence other than those testimonies that any such thing is possible at all, much less such a thing instantiated a particular occurance on that occassion. Testimony doe convince me sufficiently trump is criminal during his election Champaign because there is ample evidence besides those testimony that such a thing is possible, and ample evidence the particular criminal trump imstantiated similar occurances of criminal behavior. Got it?
Ok... so then testimony is evidence, but does not convince you, when you don't want to believe it.
It is said that an argument is what convinces reasonable men and a proof is what it takes to convince even an unreasonable man. - Alexander Vilenkin
If I am shown my error, I will be the first to throw my books into the fire. - Martin Luther
If I am shown my error, I will be the first to throw my books into the fire. - Martin Luther