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Poll: Universal moral truths exist
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Atheists only vote please: Do absolute MORAL truths exist? Is Rape ALWAYS "wrong"?
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RE: Atheists only vote please: Do absolute MORAL truths exist? Is Rape ALWAYS "wr...
(October 31, 2014 at 12:37 am)Tsun Tsu Wrote: Hi and thanks for writing!
Im truly glad you bring up how this may "feel". I think its honest to ask yourself why you "feel" this? Of course it is uncomfortable trying to come up with a way to justify rape and pedophilia. There isn't a justification, which is exactly why I am compiling this. It is also a tool to help the atheist to look past a grudging bias and have an honest look at "universal and absolute morality"... If it exists, it came from something other than matter and electrical impulse.

Its hard to do because not only id there no justification, but we have a real and living "conscience" that rises up to protect these innocents, and is repulsed by these ideas... and this too goes beyond chemical reaction and matter.

WE MUST accept the fact that either universal laws are absolute and always true, or we have to justify rape and child abuse as being sometimes actually good... and we just cant do that.

You completely missed the point I was arguing. I can come up with a scenerio that the moral thing to do is rape or pedophilia by creating a moral dilemma. How I "feel" has no affect on the my argument.

In a moral dilemma scenerio were both options are considered amoral, the less amoral would become the moral thing to do. This is a counter to the argument that universal morals exist.
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RE: Is Rape ALWAYS "wrong"? - by Surgenator - October 31, 2014 at 12:29 am
RE: Atheists only vote please: Do absolute MORAL truths exist? Is Rape ALWAYS "wr... - by Surgenator - October 31, 2014 at 1:00 am

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