RE: Why do you not believe in God?
July 17, 2012 at 9:39 am
(This post was last modified: July 17, 2012 at 9:40 am by Angrboda.)
Better, worse, greater, are calls relative to some desire, or some aversion. If it matters not whether you prosper or fail, all roads are equally good.
The laziness example only matters if failure is unpleasant, and we desire to avoid the unpleasant. This is thoroughly subjective.
The objective has no such interests. Indeed, some might suggest that if we fail, other species will prosper from our not nuking the environment. Whose desires or interests are objective? Ours? The cockroach's? Or neither?
"By convention there are sweet and bitter, hot and cold, by convention there is color; but in truth there are atoms and the void."
— Democritus
You might be interested to read what I wrote (stole) about in the "What Do You Know About God And The Afterlife" thread. It's somewhat disorganized and not polemical, but I think it gets there.