RE: Question about two possible attributes of God
June 6, 2013 at 4:23 pm
(June 5, 2013 at 5:27 pm)Ryantology Wrote: If you had the ability to reason with the ants and get them to move elsewhere?
Even if I could communicate with them, I couldn't reason with them, as I don't have a reason other than my own pleasure. Or are you saying that my pleasure, coupled with my power, should be sufficient reason for the ants to obey me?
Quote:If you had the ability to instantly, and effortlessly, move the ants to a remote location where they could exist without troubling you,
If I can instantly and effortlessly move them there, then it's nonsensical to say such location is remote to me.
Quote:if you had the ability to know ahead of time that ants, which are ignorant of the idea that your patio is anything but a unique obstacle which they have to work around, would nest in the spot you chose to build your patio in the first place and still decided to build it without taking any steps to prevent the ants from one day proving to be a hindrance?
I took steps - I installed polymeric sand, and just resanded a couple weeks ago.
Quote:If you had the ability to make ants simply not want to go anywhere near human habitation?
Control their minds, making them my slaves? You find that moral?
Quote:If you had any of these powers, and still chose to kill the ants, that would be immoral. Assuming that you're not a psychopath who enjoys killing for the sake of the pleasure it gives you, you most likely killed them out of some necessity; there was no other plausible method available to you to deal with the problem their presence caused. It's certainly not moral purity, but rather what we would consider an acceptable circumstance of our own imperfections.
They don't bite or sting or carry disease. They just annoy me. So, if other creatures annoy me and can't fight back, that's an acceptable circumstance to kill them?
