RE: Any Nihilists here?
August 24, 2023 at 1:32 pm
(This post was last modified: August 24, 2023 at 1:36 pm by FrustratedFool.)
I think the glaring difference is that the cat being pointed to is an external measurable object, whereas the infant stomping doesn't point to evil but rather expects that I have an emotional reaction to the stomping.
I can describe the stomping event without ever invoking the sense that people ought not to do that or a disgust reaction to it, and by doing so I'd be judged as having not apprehended the evil itself.
Additionally, the cat pointing is specific. That thing there is a cat. But when you point to stomping and say that there is evil you expect the word evil to apply to a infinite number of other potential events. Its not a synonym for stomping. Its something else. A property of the stomping. A property that cannot be observed, measured, described, tested, falsified, verified, or defined and about which many people disagree.
That's a huge difference, and one which you seem to not deal with. Hence why your position seems unreasonable to me.
I can describe the stomping event without ever invoking the sense that people ought not to do that or a disgust reaction to it, and by doing so I'd be judged as having not apprehended the evil itself.
Additionally, the cat pointing is specific. That thing there is a cat. But when you point to stomping and say that there is evil you expect the word evil to apply to a infinite number of other potential events. Its not a synonym for stomping. Its something else. A property of the stomping. A property that cannot be observed, measured, described, tested, falsified, verified, or defined and about which many people disagree.
That's a huge difference, and one which you seem to not deal with. Hence why your position seems unreasonable to me.
