RE: Do atheists even need an objective moral system?
December 12, 2012 at 8:53 pm
(This post was last modified: December 12, 2012 at 8:56 pm by Tea Earl Grey Hot.)
When theists throw the term "objective morality" around they mean that certain actions or states are right and wrong independent of anybody's opinion.
Why should we care if somebody has been wronged? Why is it wrong for somebody to be "wronged"?
(December 12, 2012 at 8:47 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote: Morality is a function of how we treat our fellow sentient beings. To say something is morally wrong is to say there is a victim who has been wronged. The reason rape is wrong and homosexuality is not is because with the former there is a victim and with the latter there isn't. Simple enough.
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Why should we care if somebody has been wronged? Why is it wrong for somebody to be "wronged"?
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"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
