RE: How to easily defeat any argument for God
August 27, 2019 at 7:50 am
(This post was last modified: August 27, 2019 at 7:58 am by The Grand Nudger.)
There’s a possible world where a super rational intellect engages in moral reasoning based on singular and consistent metrics, but we aren’t that intellect, this isn’t that world.
Our children having virtue is seen as good for its ability to satisfy us, but not necessarily its benefit to the child or its well being.
In a world of cheaters being an honest man is a liability. So we create categories where the virtue of simple honesty can exist concurrently with its antithetical value - strategic deception.
We want our kids to be Good People™, but not suckers. We want them to do the right thing, but we’re inherently permissive with useful or necessary infractions.
A lot of moral confusion and disagreement is resolved by this acknowledgement. That the nature of morality is (or can be) distinct from the nature of a moral agent. For example, even if morality is best described by realism, our passionate desire to see our children possess, whether that’s wealth or virtue, is necessarily subjective, but even more likely emotivism masquerading as subjectivism being misidentified as realism.
We’re ambulators, lol. Just as we’re more rationalizing than rational, we’re more moralizing than moral.
Our children having virtue is seen as good for its ability to satisfy us, but not necessarily its benefit to the child or its well being.
In a world of cheaters being an honest man is a liability. So we create categories where the virtue of simple honesty can exist concurrently with its antithetical value - strategic deception.
We want our kids to be Good People™, but not suckers. We want them to do the right thing, but we’re inherently permissive with useful or necessary infractions.
A lot of moral confusion and disagreement is resolved by this acknowledgement. That the nature of morality is (or can be) distinct from the nature of a moral agent. For example, even if morality is best described by realism, our passionate desire to see our children possess, whether that’s wealth or virtue, is necessarily subjective, but even more likely emotivism masquerading as subjectivism being misidentified as realism.
We’re ambulators, lol. Just as we’re more rationalizing than rational, we’re more moralizing than moral.
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