RE: Atheists only vote please: Do absolute MORAL truths exist? Is Rape ALWAYS "wr...
October 30, 2014 at 11:27 pm
(October 30, 2014 at 10:57 pm)Tsun Tsu Wrote:You don't really read the posts, do you? I specifically mentioned in the same post that you quoted, our human morality doesn't constitute universal truths. For a human adult victimizing a 6yr old child is immoral, but only within human society. A dog for example, is capable of breeding much before it completes 6 years, so for it, that isn't immoral.(October 30, 2014 at 10:31 pm)Aoi Magi Wrote: On child abuse, unless you specifically mean pedophilia, it does exist in nature among other species and isn't always immoral in the sense we see it in our society. Several animals, for example bears and snakes, might kill off weaker children so that the mother can survive and the species can progress with the strongest individuals. However in a human society, killing off a slightly deformed child will be treated as murder and highly immoral.
Lets use this example then... Can you say with conviction "pedophilia, victimizing children 6 yrs old and younger is universally wrong"? Or would you disagree with this?
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