(January 26, 2015 at 7:50 pm)Mr.wizard Wrote:(January 26, 2015 at 5:07 pm)Blackout Wrote: Then how do we answer the theist argument - If there are no objective or absolute moral standards then every individual's moral spectrum is equally valid, and therefore practices, actions and habits like murder, sex assault, violence, mutilation, torture...[the list goes on] should be perfectly acceptable and not censored in human societies.
[I'm sorry if the answer is obvious but I don't know how to refute this one]
What do you mean by "censored"?
In a broad sense censored could mean that people shouldn't look down on others for thinking murder or terrorism are morally commendable conducts
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you
