RE: I am an orthodox Christian, ask me a question!
August 16, 2009 at 5:47 pm
(This post was last modified: August 16, 2009 at 5:49 pm by Jon Paul.)
(August 16, 2009 at 5:39 pm)Rhizomorph13 Wrote:(August 16, 2009 at 5:24 pm)Kyuuketsuki Wrote: There is no such thing as good and evil in any objective sense ... all morality is relative.
Great statement Kyu!
There is no anthropological evidence that points to objective opinions of good and evil or moral imperatives across cultures. The few things that ARE held across all cultures are explained by evolutionary forces at work. For example, most cultures hold that having sex within the family is contraindicated which is clearly an adaptive conclusion because doing so can cause genetic problems in their progeny.
Rhizo
(August 16, 2009 at 5:24 pm)Kyuuketsuki Wrote: What the hell does "ethical reality" mean? More metaphysics I suspect and inherently pointless!You reject my way of putting it; fine. But you go on to say something similar in a different way which equals to an almost identical signification.
There is no such thing as good and evil in any objective sense ... all morality is relative.
Kyu
That the reality in it self is beyond good and evil in Nietzsche's phrase, or simply meaningless, and that good and evil are only human projections out into the world, or abstractions in any case, is obvious from a (strong) atheist point of view.
The people who are the most bigoted are the people who have no convictions at all.
-G. K. Chesterton
-G. K. Chesterton
