RE: Why did God do Satan’s bidding?
December 7, 2012 at 9:35 pm
(This post was last modified: December 7, 2012 at 9:45 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(December 7, 2012 at 9:14 pm)John V Wrote: Yes, I recognize it in God, as you noted when you said "Says you."Thank you for your testimony Mr. Wyatt, can we see your evidence now?
Quote:The Declaration of Independence says we are endowed with certain rights by God.Not the first time that people have attempted to borrow the authority of a commonly accepted fairy tale. They weren't any more correct in their assessment when they penned that then you are now.
Quote:You could bestow rights on them. There are humans without the mental capacity to claim rights, but you bestow rights on them, don't you? So, this is special pleading.Technically, I couldn't bestow the rights, no. I could argue for them though. You have habit of misidentifying fallacies, common of apologists, so I guess I can't feign surprise. Here, let wiki help you again
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_pleading
Quote:Why would that be?As I've already explained to you, if I wish to secure a right for myself but deny another that right despite it's presenting a compelling claim (or having a compelling claim presented for it, to leverage the notion above), I will have lost any substance to my own appeals for those rights. It's an expression of a concept called egalitarianism, which we often attempt to leverage in service of rights, though we sometimes fail horribly. Are we going to have to start at the beginnings of ethics and move all the way up to the current state of rights and laws before you get around to establishing the rights of your god?
As a side note, since I see you're attempting to push sapience on yet another person, those rights animals currently have are not justified by sapience, but by sentience. So no, you might really like to talk about sapience, but you're the only one doing so thusfar. If you want to go that route, I'll go down it with you, but it actually just gets shittier for god......
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