RE: How to easily defeat any argument for God
August 12, 2019 at 9:31 pm
(This post was last modified: August 12, 2019 at 9:35 pm by Acrobat.)
(August 12, 2019 at 8:16 pm)Grandizer Wrote:(August 12, 2019 at 7:50 pm)Belaqua Wrote: A while back I was arguing that grown up atheists (who aren't in a vegetative state) are atheists for reasons. That we have all heard religious arguments, evaluated them according to standards, and failed to be persuaded by them.
Often the reasons for rejecting the arguments are very good ones -- e.g. "I have never seen evidence." Other times they are not-so-good reasons -- e.g. "The nuns were mean to me."
At the time someone here was telling me that's all wrong, that he and other atheists hold things to be true about the world for no reasons at all.
It may be that Acrobat feels the same way. That we perceive good and bad without reasons. That something is just good -- not good because something.
But I confess that both cases seem strange to me.
Epistemologically, Acrobat isn't wrong here. Sometimes we don't need to deliberate on whether something is right or wrong in order to intuit it. But that's not what's being asked of him.
If X is just good, then that's still X is good because of something about X
Let’s ask this of a subjective good, like dominos pizza is good, where dominos pizza is x. Let’s introduce a y as well which stands for my taste buds.
Is good here something about x, or good here something about y?
Perhaps you recognize in this example that good is really about y, good is description of my likes.
Your not going to find the “good” in the pizza, it’s located in me, in this example of a subjective good. Do you agree?
(August 12, 2019 at 9:30 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote:(August 12, 2019 at 9:08 pm)Acrobat Wrote: That’s because I’ve answered the question several times in several different ways, and each answer was deemed unsatisfactory.
Here’s one response I gave previously:
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Because harming innocents babies cause unnecessary suffering, is harmful for both the health and wellbeing of the child and society. “
Is that not an adequate answer?
You said that was how “someone here might answer it”. It wasn’t your answer.
If it was my answer, would that have been an adequate response? This is the type of response you were looking for? Am I correct?