RE: If it wasn't for religion
January 29, 2019 at 8:19 am
(This post was last modified: January 29, 2019 at 8:20 am by Acrobat.)
(January 28, 2019 at 11:49 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: Then it would seem that anyone who has a goal of being good is fully supplied on compulsion you find acceptable even if they don't possess whatever superstitious beliefs you have about good.
Reality doesn't, in point of fact, reveal that we ought to do good - or even gush forth with revelation about what good is or isn't. We have a personal goal.
Your superstitions are irrelevant to my personal goals, and thus irrelevant to my moral compulsions. Just as MLKs superstitions are irrelevant to my agreement with his broad position on the issue of civil rights.
A person who truly believe it was his personal goals, could never arise to the status of an MLK. "I have a wish, that everyone follows my personal goals". Hence why atheists like yourself are destined at best to follow, rather than lead.
Secondly if it were just a personal goal, you should easily be able to discard it, to have no such goal at all, for all to be permissible, just like I can discard my personal goal of running everyday. Yet a person who believed they did that, would be akin to a sociopath, someone delusional.
Thirdly, I, like pretty much everyone else's moral perceptions can be traced all the way to when we were babies, showing basic conceptions of right and wrong. We seem to be innately aware of this goal, and it's not something we acquire from society, or from our parents, or one we at some point place on ourselves, it appears to us as imposed on us, rather than something we willfully imposed on ourself, like personal goals.
Fourthly, morality is grounded in such a goal, if it is as you say a personal goal, then it's subjectivism you're preaching, not moral realism. The grounding of morality isn't reality but our personal subjective goals, according to what you're implying.
Quote:What you have, is a tired old line parroted endlessly and breathlessly by fundy dipshits..that you imagine to be some profound comment on the nature of morality or rights. You could disabuse yourself of this misapprehension quickly and thoroughly if you listened to what people are telling you, rather than insisting that they must be x y and z.
I do listen, that's why I continually point out the contradictions and inconsistencies in your moral views, and why you run and hide from simple yes or no questions. I can listen to what someone delusional is telling me, or suffering from cognitive dissonance is telling me, but I can't expect them to fully grasp their delusions and dissonance. Such as your insistence of believing in moral realism, while at the same time arguing as if moral subjectivism is true.