(March 29, 2013 at 11:56 pm)Tex Wrote: By removing God as an objective source of morality, people either create some objective source (utilitarianism/hedonism creates the "mankind", positivism has the government) or they make it subjective (whatever the each person "feels"). Both of these have their individual issues. Even the morality with God has it's issues (Divine Command, Euthyphro Dilemma, etc.)
Well there is a rare admission. Is the choice of which God's commandments to follow any less arbitrary than the morality the godless live by? Suppose you decide to follow the commandments of the God you were indoctrinated to believe in at young age. To suppose that any objective set of morals will never give rise to conflicting imperatives is mostly wishful thinking.
Uncertainty is less of a problem than undeserved certainty.
