RE: Conscience and the Moral Argument as Evidence for the Goodness of God.
June 14, 2023 at 3:58 am
(June 14, 2023 at 3:48 am)Fake Messiah Wrote:(June 14, 2023 at 3:27 am)Belacqua Wrote: If the majority of people in a society think slavery is OK, then is slavery moral in that time and place?
Or is slavery always wrong, in your view?
As I explained many times, from humanistic perspective slavery is bad because a humanistic perspective is based on individual human feelings, and we know that slaves suffer. In Christian societies, the individual is not important, so that is why slavery was often acceptable (and many Christian apologists want it to come back) as is not allowing women to be educated, tolerance of other religions is not allowed, etc.
But there is no objective way for me to say that slavery is bad. I can only appeal to logic and humanistic appeals, which can easily be dismissed by a theistic mentality.
OK, so for you, if a society is Bible-based, then slavery is not immoral in that society. But it is in the kind of society you approve of.