RE: Morality without God
April 2, 2021 at 10:48 am
(This post was last modified: April 2, 2021 at 10:52 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(April 1, 2021 at 11:08 pm)Belacqua Wrote:(April 1, 2021 at 12:26 pm)polymath257 Wrote: We have a sense of fairness that is held in common with other primates.
Why are we so incredibly bad at putting this sense into practice?
Shot in the dark... Like so much else in the human organism it arose to accomplish some other task. Our moralizing is a secondary and largely ad hoc use. No matter which meta view or ethical position we hold or find out or determine to be or simply is true - this is concurrently true of human beings.
There are more ways to get a thing wrong than there are to get it right. Assuming that there really were an objective morality - that wouldn't mean that anyone held it, knew what is was, or that we would be any good at it. We'd continue along doing primate stuff and at least some of the time doing primate stuff might be incidentally related to doing moral stuff, but any more is a position on human agency and competence - not any particular moral systems truth or justifications.
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