RE: Atheists only vote please: Do absolute MORAL truths exist? Is Rape ALWAYS "wr...
November 3, 2014 at 12:15 pm
FYI, I'm not reading the whole thread, I just happened to notice a reply to my post.
Put quite simply, I'd have to have absolute knowledge of everything at every time and in every place.
If you're asking my opinion on whether I personally think that rape is always wrong I would say yes. I cannot think of a single instance where rape would be an acceptable moral action, but this is an argument from personal incredulity. If something is impossible to imagine, that doesn't mean that it is false, it means I can't imagine it. It may be the case that rape really is objectively wrong in every instance ever in the history of time and space, but I don't have access to knowledge about everything in the history time and space, and thus can't claim that I know rape is always wrong everywhere at every time even if I hold the opinion that it is.
My opinion on the first question is a firm "I don't know." My opinion on the second question is "Yes." But I don't claim to know that my opinion is correct thus I have to say "I don't know" to both.
(October 31, 2014 at 12:09 am)Tsun Tsu Wrote:(October 30, 2014 at 11:58 pm)Clueless Morgan Wrote: Can't answer the poll because there's no "I don't know" option.
What would you have to have in order to "KNOW" that regardless of time space or opinion, rape was "always wrong"??
Put quite simply, I'd have to have absolute knowledge of everything at every time and in every place.
If you're asking my opinion on whether I personally think that rape is always wrong I would say yes. I cannot think of a single instance where rape would be an acceptable moral action, but this is an argument from personal incredulity. If something is impossible to imagine, that doesn't mean that it is false, it means I can't imagine it. It may be the case that rape really is objectively wrong in every instance ever in the history of time and space, but I don't have access to knowledge about everything in the history time and space, and thus can't claim that I know rape is always wrong everywhere at every time even if I hold the opinion that it is.
My opinion on the first question is a firm "I don't know." My opinion on the second question is "Yes." But I don't claim to know that my opinion is correct thus I have to say "I don't know" to both.
Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.
