RE: Do atheists even need an objective moral system?
December 13, 2012 at 12:48 am
(This post was last modified: December 13, 2012 at 12:51 am by Tea Earl Grey Hot.)
(December 13, 2012 at 12:42 am)DeistPaladin Wrote:(December 13, 2012 at 12:40 am)teaearlgreyhot Wrote: So? What if the person values hypocrisy? Or doesn't care?
OK. ...but I think such an admission would compromise one's argument and credibility.
And there really isn't a reason I can see based on non-arbitrary values to be concerned with such things as hypocrisy or credibility. It seems that for all the "good" moral values that most people hold, a person could just as easily hold the exact opposite set of values.
(December 13, 2012 at 12:47 am)Ryantology Wrote:(December 13, 2012 at 12:40 am)teaearlgreyhot Wrote: So? What if the person values hypocrisy? Or doesn't care?
As diverse as human social constructs can be, persons like this are rarely tolerated in any of them unless they have the power to outright control the construct or the willingness to submit to a system they dislike. It also depends on how objectionable they find the system and their willingness to actively disrupt it.
True, but I'm not talking about how a person could get away with such things. That's irrelevant.
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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).
