RE: Hello to all
November 28, 2023 at 11:14 am
(This post was last modified: November 28, 2023 at 11:21 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(November 28, 2023 at 10:34 am)Confused-by-christianity Wrote: Whats the answer??
What makes a thing important - other than whats just going on in my own head - or a bunch of peoples heads??
(November 28, 2023 at 10:35 am)Confused-by-christianity Wrote: Do you have an answer???
Well, sure, I have an answer? I have lots of them, for as many things as I think are important. Yet more for different ways of being important. Intrinsic and extrinsic and combinations of both. You'll find that other people also have other answers. I'm not a subjectivist or a relativist. Rightly or wrongly. I certainly also think at least some things are important and I really don't know why I think that - I couldn't honestly tell you. Any explanation would be ad hoc, post fact. We try not to do debates in an intro thread.
I'd put "because a god exists" types of importance in the utilitarian set. It's a transaction. A god exists or we believe a god exists and this belief, in turn (we believe...), provides us with utility or this fact provides us with some tangible return. Moral foundations, paradise, what have you. Nothing about the thing itself is important. It's not an intrinsic value or even an extrinsic value related to the thing. It's an extrinsic value related to the belief or existence of gods, instead.
I don't personally believe in or agree with that kind of importance regardless of whether or not a god existed. Which is to say that I could simply give you god - and it doesn't change my calculus in any way.
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