RE: Moral dilemmas
October 7, 2012 at 11:40 pm
(This post was last modified: October 7, 2012 at 11:42 pm by Jeffonthenet.)
(October 6, 2012 at 6:14 am)Doubting_Thomas Wrote: Post dilemmas and your view on the most moral action. When replying, please make it clear which dilemma your comment relates to. I hope this thread can help people explore relative vs absolute and secular vs religious morals.
Dilemma 1. A Father's Agonizing Choice
You are an inmate in a concentration camp. A sadistic guard is about to hang your son who tried to escape and wants you to pull the chair from underneath him. He says that if you don't he will not only kill your son but some other innocent inmate as well. You don't have any doubt that he means what he says. What should you do?
Re concentration camp. Pull the chair out. :-(
If I am understanding you correctly, this post is based on a fundamental misunderstanding. Having an absolute moral value could mean that in Dilemma 1., the right moral choice is absolutely to pull the chair out from under the son in order to save two lives. Academic Christians, as far as I am aware, when they say that there are absolute moral values, mean that certain things, like for example, killing babies only for the fun of it, are morally wrong. They do not mean that "killing is wrong in every conceivable circumstance".
"the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate" (1 Cor. 1:19)
