RE: If it wasn't for religion
January 31, 2019 at 5:15 pm
(This post was last modified: January 31, 2019 at 5:17 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(January 31, 2019 at 5:04 pm)Acrobat Wrote:(January 31, 2019 at 4:05 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: You don't understand why you'd have to know something about my morality before claiming to know something about my morality?
As to the other. This has been very simple from the outset. I think that goodness and badness refer to material properties. Some act x either possesses those properties or it does not.
You don’t see why saying what you said here, can come off as contradicting what you were implying here:
“No one thinks that we'll be filling any holes in the periodic table with goodium and badium.”
What I can see..is that you have a compulsion to imagine that -anything- I might have to say just has to be incoherent, contradictory, or delusional. That's your schtick.
The assertion has never been anything other than entirely pointless and stupid. Moral realism only requires that a person contend that there are moral facts, and moral facts are not gods......there is nothing whatsoever about an atheist being a moral realist that could even conceivably -be- incoherent, contradictory, or delusional.
You, acro..you, for having so breathlessly made that claim over and over again...actually -are- delusional. Maybe..if it weren't for your religion.......
Quote:The implication of the above being, that good and bad don’t exist as the material properties of x, like we might say of molecules, or bricks, or other material components of x.There is no implication above. I'm telling you..over and over again... that good and bad are not stuff. That it's not an issue of goodium and badium. That good and bad, to a realist, only needs to refer to true statements that can be objectively verified and have a moral import.
Will you ever get around to confronting the fact that you have been wholly, utterly, and completely wrong for many pages now?
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