RE: How to easily defeat any argument for God
August 11, 2019 at 11:46 am
(This post was last modified: August 11, 2019 at 11:47 am by GrandizerII.)
(August 11, 2019 at 11:27 am)Acrobat Wrote:(August 11, 2019 at 11:22 am)Grandizer Wrote: Facepalm. The sun is nothing like what we're debating here. How does one see "good" or "bad" in the same way they see "sun"?
When I say X is bad, I am generally speaking saying that there is something about this X that is harmful to others or depriving of rights or something else that can be clearly noted about it and that makes my brain think "bad".
So when you say x is good, or x is bad you are stating an objective truth, and not a description of your subjective emotional state, like the pleasant taste of pizza?
That depends. It's not a black or white thing. Sometimes, it's just a reflection of my subjective emotional states, but other times, I can appeal to something about the act itself that reasonably makes it wrong. The Holocaust is wrong because it took the lives of a huge number of people for reasons that did not warrant it, it was a violation of human rights, etc. No reference to emotional states here (though my emotional state of disgust or anger may supplement how I view the Holocaust when I think about it).