RE: Can Creator create morality from nothing?
July 17, 2012 at 6:43 pm
(This post was last modified: July 17, 2012 at 6:58 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(July 17, 2012 at 1:07 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: Imagine a world where smart intelligent beings are created to do battle with each other. They battle one another but they don't die. They can inflict pain on each other but not physical damage. They fight each other and inflict pain on each other. Now is it possible that part of their "goodness" is to hate each other and inflict pain on each other, for no reason but for sake of hate and inflicting pain? And that it's "evil" to love and have compassion for one another? Those whom decide to help one another, try to live in peace, not inflict pain each other are being "evil"? While those inflicting pain on each other are being "good"? Can the Creator create goodness and evil, in this sense? Or is it impossible?
I say it's impossible. Let me know your thoughts.
If a creature can't suffer harm, why would it develop any aversion to the cognative feature called pain? If pain is not undesirable, why would it be evil to inflict it?
I think you are abstracting far too much, and cherry picking portions of the abstraction while ignoring intimiately and inextricably related portions.
