Litmus test

[Rayaan]

@ worldslaziestbusker
What right to not be verbally abused? I do not want it, I have moved on from Kant.


Why do you want to impose your system of logic on me?

From what I gathered so far, he is trying to impose his system of logic onto all atheists mainly because he agrees with Kant's concept of categorical imperative. That is the litmus test he is speaking of.

Laziestbusker outlined it here, but I think he should have mentioned this concept in the OP as well.


A short description:

Since by nature (according to Kant) the moral law is universal and impartial and rational, the categorical is a way of formulating the criteria by which any action can pass the test of universality, impartiality, and rationality. That is its only function.

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The Categorical Imperative is universal and impartial -- universal because all people, in virtue of being rational, would act in precisely the same way, and impartial because their actions are not guided by their own biases, but because they respect the dignity and autonomy of every human being and do not put their own personal ambitions above the respect that others deserve.

Notice that the above is NOT a description of how everybody does behave -- as an ethical theory, it is concerned to describe how people ought to behave.

http://www.qcc.cuny.edu/socialsciences/p...rative.htm