RE: Why It Is Not Too Late To Repent And Turn To Christ
April 13, 2014 at 9:54 pm
(This post was last modified: April 13, 2014 at 9:55 pm by tor.)
(April 13, 2014 at 9:42 pm)Esquilax Wrote:(April 13, 2014 at 9:36 pm)tor Wrote: Actually people decide what's right and wrong. Reality has no values.
True enough, but what I was getting at is that the morality we make for ourselves is informed by reality and our reactions to it. We know that fire burns us, that burning feels unpleasant and harms us, and so there's no society on earth that deems throwing people into fires a moral good.
There were plenty of societies that burned people alive.
I was looking for objective grounding for morals for years now but I could never find it. Action can be objectively best for the certain set of values but values themselves are preferences which are subjective. For instance a person has opinion that burning people is good and my opinion is different. I will try to prevent him from burning people but it's just because I have different opinion. 1000 years ago many people had opinion that burning witches is cool and women were burned and everyone thought it was fine.
Besides the people feel burning if they are getting burned not if they burn other people
Revelation777 Wrote:I don't any of us enjoy being hungry and it is clear knowledge that there are thousands of child who starve to death each day. Yet, why are there not enough people doing something about this to eradicate world hunger?And how do you suggest we will do that?
