(November 14, 2014 at 5:38 pm)His_Majesty Wrote: [quote='Mister Agenda' pid='795177' dateline='1415812560']
We don't presuppose the standard, we derive it from experience: no one likes getting raped, raping isn't necessary, and preventing rape greatly improves the odds of our not being raped. The axiom isn't that 'rape is bad', it's that 'needlessly harming other humans is bad', and you can't have an ethical system of any kind without at least one axiom. Isn't the basis of your ethical system the axiom that a supremely just God authored it? Do you consider that assumption begging the question?
Quote:So a slave master, who from birth always experienced the slavery of Africans to be a good thing, since that was his experience, that makes it right?
SMH. No need to discuss the subject of morality with you any further.
Yes indeed it would not be wrong in that society to keep slaves, after all it is specifically allowed for in the bible and that, for many years, was where people looked to for moral guidance. Just as well those days are over eh.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.