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Moral Argument for God's Existence
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RE: Moral Argument for God's Existence
(October 22, 2013 at 12:01 pm)bennyboy Wrote: How do you go from individual objective moralities to a group objective morality? If we can't do that, we basically have "people are different, and they do stuff that affects others."
Guys, I have loved reading your back and forth on this. Since this above quote appears to be how the world actually is, how does that fit into the framework you're constructing?
Quote: It may be true, but it leads to a kind of metamoralistic question: is it moral for any subset of a population to establish (still through their deterministic therefore objective processes) a moral code? If the answer to that is "no," then we're in Koolay-land.
You would have to rely on utilitarianism here, since you would have already determined that objective morals don't exist past the individual.

Thanks for having this discussion- it's fascinating.
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Moral Argument for God's Existence - by MindForgedManacle - October 17, 2013 at 10:18 pm
RE: Moral Argument for God's Existence - by FallentoReason - October 18, 2013 at 12:50 am
RE: Moral Argument for God's Existence - by genkaus - October 18, 2013 at 1:27 am
RE: Moral Argument for God's Existence - by FallentoReason - October 18, 2013 at 1:44 am
RE: Moral Argument for God's Existence - by genkaus - October 18, 2013 at 2:54 am
RE: Moral Argument for God's Existence - by max-greece - October 18, 2013 at 3:53 am
RE: Moral Argument for God's Existence - by bennyboy - October 19, 2013 at 12:08 am
RE: Moral Argument for God's Existence - by genkaus - October 19, 2013 at 8:59 am
RE: Moral Argument for God's Existence - by bennyboy - October 19, 2013 at 9:13 pm
RE: Moral Argument for God's Existence - by genkaus - October 20, 2013 at 7:28 am
RE: Moral Argument for God's Existence - by Cato - October 19, 2013 at 12:27 am
RE: Moral Argument for God's Existence - by bennyboy - October 20, 2013 at 8:37 am
RE: Moral Argument for God's Existence - by genkaus - October 21, 2013 at 3:54 am
RE: Moral Argument for God's Existence - by bennyboy - October 21, 2013 at 9:54 pm
RE: Moral Argument for God's Existence - by genkaus - October 22, 2013 at 8:52 am
RE: Moral Argument for God's Existence - by bennyboy - October 22, 2013 at 12:01 pm
RE: Moral Argument for God's Existence - by Zazzy - October 22, 2013 at 1:06 pm
RE: Moral Argument for God's Existence - by bennyboy - October 22, 2013 at 9:03 pm
RE: Moral Argument for God's Existence - by genkaus - October 22, 2013 at 11:48 pm
RE: Moral Argument for God's Existence - by bennyboy - October 23, 2013 at 11:25 pm
RE: Moral Argument for God's Existence - by genkaus - October 24, 2013 at 7:23 am
RE: Moral Argument for God's Existence - by bennyboy - October 24, 2013 at 6:42 pm
RE: Moral Argument for God's Existence - by genkaus - October 24, 2013 at 7:21 pm
RE: Moral Argument for God's Existence - by bennyboy - October 24, 2013 at 8:38 pm
RE: Moral Argument for God's Existence - by genkaus - October 24, 2013 at 8:53 pm
RE: Moral Argument for God's Existence - by bennyboy - October 24, 2013 at 8:59 pm
RE: Moral Argument for God's Existence - by genkaus - October 24, 2013 at 9:34 pm
RE: Moral Argument for God's Existence - by bennyboy - October 24, 2013 at 10:41 pm
RE: Moral Argument for God's Existence - by genkaus - October 25, 2013 at 3:52 am
RE: Moral Argument for God's Existence - by bennyboy - October 25, 2013 at 5:32 am
RE: Moral Argument for God's Existence - by genkaus - October 25, 2013 at 6:50 am
RE: Moral Argument for God's Existence - by bennyboy - October 25, 2013 at 9:47 am
RE: Moral Argument for God's Existence - by genkaus - October 22, 2013 at 5:55 pm

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