RE: Atheists only vote please: Do absolute MORAL truths exist? Is Rape ALWAYS "wr...
February 18, 2015 at 2:29 am
I reason thuslike:
There are either one or no moral absolutes.
As the head of our Mexico sales organization wisely told me once, "There is one answer to every question. That answer is, 'It depends.'"
The only moral question which can have an absolute answer is the one where there are no worse alternatives at any time or under any constellation of circumstance. All others must defer. For example, rape could be the better moral choice if the alternative was torturing all the puppies and small children in the world to death. If the case is correctly made that in this situation rape is the preferred option, the contention that "rape is always wrong" must be false.
I refuse to speculate on what that worst possible moral choice might be.
If there happen to be two such conditions, each worse than the other under different circumstances, then there are no moral absolutes as the two worst ones can each serve as the preferred alternative.
There are either one or no moral absolutes.
As the head of our Mexico sales organization wisely told me once, "There is one answer to every question. That answer is, 'It depends.'"
The only moral question which can have an absolute answer is the one where there are no worse alternatives at any time or under any constellation of circumstance. All others must defer. For example, rape could be the better moral choice if the alternative was torturing all the puppies and small children in the world to death. If the case is correctly made that in this situation rape is the preferred option, the contention that "rape is always wrong" must be false.
I refuse to speculate on what that worst possible moral choice might be.
If there happen to be two such conditions, each worse than the other under different circumstances, then there are no moral absolutes as the two worst ones can each serve as the preferred alternative.
So how, exactly, does God know that She's NOT a brain in a vat? 
