RE: Morality without the righteous. What is right and wrong?
March 13, 2013 at 9:31 am
(This post was last modified: March 13, 2013 at 9:33 am by The Grand Nudger.)
As a minor nitpick MS, there's actually no difference between the two options you presented in principle, whether you believe or whether you do not, in your example, what is right and wrong is still being determined by whomever is in power - be it gods or humans. I wouldn't argue that might does not make right in practice (we see it all the time) - but we also understand that might does not make right in principle, making an invocation of either the power of a god or the power of a man a poor justification for a set of moral guidelines (IMHO).
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