RE: Morality without God
March 30, 2021 at 3:05 pm
(This post was last modified: March 30, 2021 at 3:11 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Would that make capital punishment fundamentally wrong, if it's what made the other thing fundamentally wrong?
I tend to go the most direct route on this myself, and say yeah - both fundamentally wrong for (at least some of) the same reasons. In that sense, the two can be compared directly and equivalently. Yes, we quickly see that the innocent can be and have been wronged...but we're equally capable of harming the guilty (perhaps even-more so, but that would be a digression)...and we can have all sorts of reasons to do the wrong thing.
I tend to go the most direct route on this myself, and say yeah - both fundamentally wrong for (at least some of) the same reasons. In that sense, the two can be compared directly and equivalently. Yes, we quickly see that the innocent can be and have been wronged...but we're equally capable of harming the guilty (perhaps even-more so, but that would be a digression)...and we can have all sorts of reasons to do the wrong thing.
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