RE: Objective Morals+
March 13, 2013 at 12:19 pm
(This post was last modified: March 13, 2013 at 12:31 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
I'm with you Whatevs, do your best, let the chips fall, and then whatever consequence or value judgement made upon your actions you will have at least deserved in the deepest and most meaningful way. Good with the bad. If, on the other hand, one fault in my actions or character nullifies any virtue I may also possess I no longer care for the score-givers opinion. The same holds true if the situation were reversed, where one virtue erases any fault. Perhaps this is the easiest way to explain why I can't sign on with salvation through belief (or any of the other attachments to that salvation), to my mind, this sort of system completely erodes the basis for any such redemption or condemnation. I'm personally capable of considering the relative weight of the "good" and "bad" in a much more complex and thorough way, and it would be highly disappointing to find out that the cosmic arbitrator of all that is good or evil has a concept of those two things that is indistinguishable from that of my three year old's appraisal of the same.....
Similarly, the mind swims as to how we ended up in a situation where "the smartest kid in the universe" creates a being which appears to be able to consider these things in such an exhaustive manner relative to that "smartest kid". It would seem that even if the smartest kid in the universe got the answer right - it has no idea -how- it came to the correct conclusion (or at the very least, it isn't showing it's work or telling anyone else), whereas we are capable of explaining -how- we came to a conclusion, right or wrong. Personally, I'll take my C- over that dunces A+ all day long.
Similarly, the mind swims as to how we ended up in a situation where "the smartest kid in the universe" creates a being which appears to be able to consider these things in such an exhaustive manner relative to that "smartest kid". It would seem that even if the smartest kid in the universe got the answer right - it has no idea -how- it came to the correct conclusion (or at the very least, it isn't showing it's work or telling anyone else), whereas we are capable of explaining -how- we came to a conclusion, right or wrong. Personally, I'll take my C- over that dunces A+ all day long.
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