(August 1, 2024 at 11:14 am)Sheldon Wrote:(August 1, 2024 at 10:00 am)Disagreeable Wrote: How would you respond to a Divine Command Theorist who says that God could mass kill a whole bunch of humans and it wouldn't be morally wrong because what's morally right is whatever God wills? How would you argue for your own definition of moral goodness?If the morality of his concept of a deity, falls short of the morality of an evolved ape, why would I care what he claims that deity thinks or wants. That's assuming he could demonstrate in any objective way that this deity exists of course, if he can't then he might as well be describing the moral views of villain from a comic book.
My own answer is that it seems to me that morality is about harm and if God kills a bunch of humans then that is harmful so that is wrong.
Schopenhauer Wrote:The intellect has become free, and in this state it does not even know or understand any other interest than that of truth.
Epicurus Wrote:The greatest reward of righteousness is peace of mind.
Epicurus Wrote:Don't fear god,
Don't worry about death;
What is good is easy to get,
What is terrible is easy to endure
