(August 11, 2019 at 7:05 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote:(August 11, 2019 at 10:44 am)Acrobat Wrote: Because it’s hateful.
“Hateful” makes an assumption about what the person committing the act is feeling about the act. It doesn’t tell me anything objective about the act itself, morally or otherwise. Some people have tortured babies because they’re mentally ill, or because it’s a sexual compulsion, or because they lack any kind of emotions at all. By your description above, it would only be bad to torture babies if the person torturing the baby also hated the baby, or did it because of hate.
Do you want to try again? Why is it objectively immoral to torture babies, Acro?
Let's take the statement torturing innocent babies just for fun is wrong, is an objective truth. The sun is shining outside my window is also an objective truth.
Does how I come to recognize any of these objective truths, make them any less of an objective truth? If my wife came to recognize the sun is outside my window because she felt it on her back while waking up, and I did so by looking out my window, and my friend did by checking out my snap chat, does any of this change the nature of the truth itself?
