Why did God murder children for making fun of a bald guy?
March 17, 2014 at 2:36 pm
(This post was last modified: March 17, 2014 at 2:40 pm by Rampant.A.I..)
(March 13, 2014 at 1:40 am)Faith No More Wrote: Have you ever noticed that when people are arguing that evolution cannot be responsible for morality, they never, ever use a symbiotic relationship as an example?
Yes. Or empathy: like the example above your post, there's an assumption that there's "no way to know" inflicting pain on another person is wrong. This goes against The Golden Rule, and I can just picture a Christian torturing a non-believ--OH WAIT, that already happened in the Inquisition! I guess God should have told them torture was wrong.
(March 13, 2014 at 6:25 am)Tonus Wrote:(March 13, 2014 at 1:33 am)orangebox21 Wrote: I'd say yes, we wouldn't be able to determine this is a less than desirable outcome without a God given morality. To illustrate: Why do we already assume that causing pain to someone else is inherently bad? After all it could benefit the individual inflicting the pain?If this occurs in a vacuum then yes, you could wind up with a viewpoint that hurting others for your own enjoyment is moral. The survival of larger communities and societies was almost certainly contingent on determining a code of conduct that strengthened the group.
Why is this so hard for Orangebox to wrap his head around?
I'm telling you. . . People who honestly need a parental figure to tell them "murder is wrong" really scare me.
He said before that there's no way to conclude torture is wrong without God. Really, another person screaming in agony isn't enough to sway you? Wow.
