RE: Objective Morality?
November 4, 2011 at 11:03 am
(This post was last modified: November 4, 2011 at 11:07 am by The Grand Nudger.)
The way that GC (and others) describe things as "natural" or "unnatural", or "against evolution" perfectly sums up why they have a huge disconnect with reality. They are either purposely or obliviously attempting to assign these things a proscriptive nature, rather than descriptive (as is actually the case). They see these things as alternatives to god, and so they invest the concepts with meaning and purpose which are more accurately their own. They expect evolution or nature to somehow be a lawgiver as their god is supposed to be. So, when this "evolutionary lawgiver" is predictably inconsistent in it's application, they feel that they have found some room to criticize the notion and it's related concepts.
Perhaps you shouldn't expect evolution or the natural world to be some transcendent arbitrator of what is right and wrong, as these two discussions are not exactly equivalent.
Perhaps you shouldn't expect evolution or the natural world to be some transcendent arbitrator of what is right and wrong, as these two discussions are not exactly equivalent.
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