RE: Maximizing Moral Virtue
June 24, 2022 at 2:25 pm
(This post was last modified: June 24, 2022 at 2:27 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(June 24, 2022 at 1:44 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: I am not exactly sure what you are trying to say, but when they say "Gay people and gay marriage are bad because God says so in the Bible" they believe that this is an objective morality that is beyond their wishes and decisions.If they believe that Teh Gay is objectively bad, then they do not believe Teh Gay is bad because god says so. They believe that something about Teh Gay is bad. They're unlikely to be shy about telling you just what that is.
Quote:Now, you could argue that they are deluding themselves for many reasons, one of which is that they choose which God's commandments they will follow either by pick-and-choose method or just mental gymnastics, but that doesn't matter in the point that I am trying to make which is the claim that it comes from God (Bible) when it actually comes from some dubious anonymous people somewhere in the past who related it to us by a very flawed method.Whether a purportedly objective moral claim comes from a god, dubious people, or a bathroom stall is completely irrelevant to whether or not the claim is, in fact, true. Whether the x a claim surrounds can be said to increase moral virtue.
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