RE: How to easily defeat any argument for God
August 11, 2019 at 8:43 am
(This post was last modified: August 11, 2019 at 9:18 am by LadyForCamus.)
(August 11, 2019 at 7:36 am)Acrobat Wrote:(August 10, 2019 at 12:23 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote: Basically, “god is good, and good is god.” And yet, we have no definition or explanation of either. What an incredibly useless basis for a moral system.
Goodness is a simple and undefinable property - G.E. Moore.
If it’s not definable, how do we decide what things are good and what things aren’t?
Quote:We can all recognize a variety of things that are good, like the 3 month old recognizes the a helping character is good.
Can we? What do we do when two people disagree on whether or not something is good?
Quote:Or when I look at my daughter, and recognize her sweetness, her kindness, her innocence, purity as good, etc...
Some people resent and despise their children, and drown them in the bathtub.
Quote:We can all recognize that someone who risked their lives to save Jews, or slaves, etc... did something good.
All of us? Even Nazis and white supremacists? What do we do when people disagree on what is right? How do we figure out the truth of the matter?
Quote:The recognition of Good is easy.
You mean you can easily recognize things that fit your own personal definition of good. Why is it wrong to torture a baby, Acro? Before you answer, bear in mind, “it just is” is not an answer because it tells us nothing about why something is good or not good, and because I could just as well assert, “it just isn’t”. How do we figure out who is right?
Nay_Sayer: “Nothing is impossible if you dream big enough, or in this case, nothing is impossible if you use a barrel of KY Jelly and a miniature horse.”
Wiser words were never spoken.
Wiser words were never spoken.
