RE: Deconversion and some doubts
July 31, 2019 at 10:38 pm
(This post was last modified: July 31, 2019 at 10:39 pm by Acrobat.)
(July 31, 2019 at 10:17 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: Try
Stealing is bad
I shouldn’t do bad things
Therefore I shouldn’t steal.
Sure you recognize it, both the descriptive and the evaluative (and for that matter the means of inference). It’s good that you do, but you do so based on cultural prompting and deontological conditioning as a child.
No I don’t recognize it from cultural prompting or deontological conditioning, for the same reason I don’t recognize it’s bad as the result of cultural prompting or deontological conditioning.
I recognize that I ought not do it from recognizing that it’s bad. If theres something you showed me that’s objectively bad, that I didn’t know before, I would recognize that I ought not do it, no additional cultural prompting or deontological conditioning is required.
You can continue to suggest its the result of cultural prompting or deontological conditioning, but you haven’t supported this in any remotely convincing way, in fact you seem to tied your own noose in doing so by subscribing to moral realism. An atheist who rejects moral realism, might have been able to make a more compelling case, but yours is dead on arrival, requires you to say really stupid things such as moral statement like stealing is bad are descriptive, lol.