RE: What is the point of morality if you're a theist?
October 20, 2013 at 8:46 pm
(This post was last modified: October 20, 2013 at 8:49 pm by davidMC1982.)
MindForgedManacle Wrote:Humans kill each other all the time. "Not in our nature" at best means such is not a typical action done by 'normal' members of our species. And yet in the last century alone hundreds of millions died from war and other human-chosen atrocities, despite it not being normal to do so.
Humans do kill each other all the time, but only because they have been convinced to do so. We can be convinced to commit attrocities because we have a mind capable of reasoning but we're mostly not very good at it. It's like our mind's ability to adopt new ideas has yet to be balanced by its ability to rationalise them. We still have some way to go in biological and social evolution.
On some level, I would agree with all of your points. I guess we only differ on whether morality covers the whole of the human condition or just the conscious part. That's an argument of semantics which wouldn't really get us anywhere, so I'll leave that to the philosophers
