RE: Atheism and Ethics
June 9, 2024 at 4:54 pm
(This post was last modified: June 9, 2024 at 4:56 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
I wouldn't get too caught up or concerned in the idea of defending this or that. We're just talking. I was pointing out that abolitionism doesn't really care what kind of statements moral statements are. They could be subjective, relative, objective. They could be true or false in each of those contexts. It may be that there is a metaethically objective reality -and- it's counterproductive to conflict resolution.
In a similar way, atheism is ethics neutral. There is no metaethical position that doesn't fit with atheism..and all of them are at least valid or coherent. Even the "god based" morality you believed in, which you think you cannot believe in now as an atheist, is just moral subjectivism with a god. You could continue to be a moral subjectivist as an atheist. That's a specific error - and you won't have any trouble whatsoever pointing out that it is at least descriptively true. We often make moral pronouncements as though they are facts of a matter when they are..more accurately, facts about ourselves. This moral intransigence is counterproductive to conflict resolution.
In a similar way, atheism is ethics neutral. There is no metaethical position that doesn't fit with atheism..and all of them are at least valid or coherent. Even the "god based" morality you believed in, which you think you cannot believe in now as an atheist, is just moral subjectivism with a god. You could continue to be a moral subjectivist as an atheist. That's a specific error - and you won't have any trouble whatsoever pointing out that it is at least descriptively true. We often make moral pronouncements as though they are facts of a matter when they are..more accurately, facts about ourselves. This moral intransigence is counterproductive to conflict resolution.
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