(July 21, 2010 at 4:02 pm)EvidenceVsFaith Wrote:Moral is opinion on how one should act. Because it is opinion, it cannot be transformed to fact. There is a choice involved for a goal like "less suffering", but a Macchiavellistic moral goal for instance wouldn't include "less suffering" for other people. There is not a way to objectively settle the dispute between the Macchiavellistic goal and the "less suffering" goal. There is no intrinsic truth to either of them.PR Wrote:Yeah, but that is a choice for a specific moral goal.
But if moral is defined as "better well being" and "less suffering" then there are factual matters about that.
So when you say it's a choice for a specific "moral" goal, what do you mean by "moral" goal if you don't define moral as above?
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Christianity is perfect bullshit, christians are not - Purple Rabbit, honouring CS Lewis
Faith is illogical - fr0d0
Christianity is perfect bullshit, christians are not - Purple Rabbit, honouring CS Lewis
Faith is illogical - fr0d0