RE: How to easily defeat any argument for God
August 28, 2019 at 8:09 am
(This post was last modified: August 28, 2019 at 8:20 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Consider the phenomena of hippys that kill.
Vietnam. Support for the war trended steeply downward with age. While not all the draftable population were protesters (not even close), it’s safe to assume they had fundamentally similar views of war. More than a few people rationalized their participation as onerous duty. After returning home, the anti-war tide had become so overwhelming that many of those people found it difficult to cope with their recent past, having lost the support of their society. Heroes or baby killers.
Relativism gets us coming and going, it overwhelms our subjective apparatus and subverts our observational conclusions. At all points in this, they felt the same way you do. Even as the content of their moral schema changed.
A schema is just an internal model of the moral field. OFC they’re subject to all of our cognitive weaknesses, as a species. However, if they can be inaccurate, wrong, or false....then we’re discussing truth-alike content. Some must be more accurate, less wrong, or not demonstrably false.
This is the strongest case or defense for a realist moral order.
Vietnam. Support for the war trended steeply downward with age. While not all the draftable population were protesters (not even close), it’s safe to assume they had fundamentally similar views of war. More than a few people rationalized their participation as onerous duty. After returning home, the anti-war tide had become so overwhelming that many of those people found it difficult to cope with their recent past, having lost the support of their society. Heroes or baby killers.
Relativism gets us coming and going, it overwhelms our subjective apparatus and subverts our observational conclusions. At all points in this, they felt the same way you do. Even as the content of their moral schema changed.
A schema is just an internal model of the moral field. OFC they’re subject to all of our cognitive weaknesses, as a species. However, if they can be inaccurate, wrong, or false....then we’re discussing truth-alike content. Some must be more accurate, less wrong, or not demonstrably false.
This is the strongest case or defense for a realist moral order.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
