RE: Atheism and morality
July 2, 2013 at 3:35 pm
(This post was last modified: July 2, 2013 at 3:36 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(July 2, 2013 at 3:30 pm)Inigo Wrote: Another feature of morality is that its instructions are ones that confer reasons for compliance whatever one's interests. So if morality instructs you to X then it is a conceptual truth that Xing is something you have reason to do, and reason to do in virtue of morality instructing you to do it.Morality tells me not to rape my neighbors daughter. My neighbors could all give me plenty of reasons not to rape my neighbors daughter....and so could my waffle or my peanuts...if my neighbors advice were insufficient (and I'd lost my shit). -Anything- you defer to has this "feature" even if your deference is a gross error.
Your instructions, my instructins, and the instructions of communities do not have this feature. Therefore moral instructions are not the instructions of ourselves or our communities.
Yet still, even if I didn't care to argue, "not ourselves or our communities" leaves a very - very long list of things to cross out before we get to "god" doesn't it? Or, more simply, as before "not ourselves or our communities" =/= "god"
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