RE: Deconversion and some doubts
July 29, 2019 at 4:26 pm
(This post was last modified: July 29, 2019 at 4:28 pm by GrandizerII.)
(July 29, 2019 at 7:27 am)Acrobat Wrote:(July 27, 2019 at 12:37 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote: Can you get an ought from an is?If I subscribe to some goal such as I ought not harm others. Then if x is harmful to others, it can be said that I ought not do x, as a result.
But if I had no such goal, there’s no ought to derive from x is harmful to others. It’s not based on x being harmful to others, that I ought not to do x, it’s based on the goal being not to harm others.
And who do you think comes up with these goals, besides humans? Whatever divinely sanctioned "ought" there may be out there, it's not evident at all and isn't necessary. As far as us human beings are concerned, atheists and theists alike, our oughts develop from us, consciously/subconsciously, mainly societally/culturally but also individually. What is so hard to accept about this from a logical perspective? The world/system doesn't need to be perfect for it to be doing ok.
