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what are we supposed to say again when christians ask us where we get our morality?
what are we supposed to say again when christians ask us where we get our mor...
(July 3, 2014 at 6:16 pm)MindForgedManacle Wrote: Many theists are far too willing to just accept moral realism and many atheists far too willing to abandon it, neither generally having very good reasons for doing so.

Our experiences and beliefs are a product of viewing reality through the lenses of experience and human cognition. Objective morality is an untenable abstract ideal necessary to maintain because it gives us a goal to strive towards.

Our morality doesn't have to come from an outside source to reach toward a goal, any less than Honor needs to be objective for people to behave honorably.

They're fables we tell ourselves, because we realize they improve the human condition for everyone.

What feels morally right or wrong objectively isn't actually objective. It's historical consensus.

That's why slavery seems objectively morally wrong now, but wasn't in the past. It's why treating women as property seems objectively wrong now, but wasn't universally considered as such in the past. Because an objective source does not exist. In the Bible you see Lot appeal to a moral standard outside of God to convince God to spare the innocent of Sodom.

That standard is Don Quixote's untraceable star. Doesn't matter if it doesn't exist; it matters that we tell ourselves it does.
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What I say is - by Zidneya - May 12, 2014 at 9:45 pm
Reply to Statler Waldorf - by CharnelRC - May 14, 2014 at 5:30 am
RE: what are we supposed... - by Statler Waldorf - May 16, 2014 at 6:12 pm
RE: what are we supposed - by Statler Waldorf - June 3, 2014 at 7:31 pm
RE: what are we supposed to say - by Statler Waldorf - June 4, 2014 at 7:22 pm
RE: what are we supposed to say - by Statler Waldorf - June 6, 2014 at 4:59 pm
RE: what are we supposed to - by Statler Waldorf - June 6, 2014 at 6:36 pm
RE: what are we supposed to - by Statler Waldorf - June 9, 2014 at 7:36 pm
RE: what are we supposed to say again - by Zack - June 11, 2014 at 3:46 pm
RE: what are we supposed to - by Statler Waldorf - June 16, 2014 at 7:13 pm
RE: what are we supposed to say - by CindysRain - June 20, 2014 at 6:23 pm
RE: what are we supposed to say... - by naimless - June 26, 2014 at 4:35 pm
what are we supposed to say again when christians ask us where we get our mor... - by Rampant.A.I. - July 4, 2014 at 12:34 am

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