RE: Christians, Prove Your God Is Good
February 24, 2015 at 11:12 am
(This post was last modified: February 24, 2015 at 11:17 am by watchamadoodle.)
(February 24, 2015 at 10:30 am)Ignorant Wrote: Happiness/human fulfillment is the satisfaction of all human desire.
What if one human's desires are in conflict with the desires of others (humans, animals, plants)? For example, most people would agree that fulfilling Hitler's desires were not good. I suppose a Christian might argue that Hitler did not understand his true desire to know God and was pursuing the wrong desires.
(February 24, 2015 at 10:30 am)Ignorant Wrote: Do you have any definition or explanation to offer?
I guess I'm a moral relativist. (I'm not sure what emotivist means - even after skimming the definition in Wikipedia. I don't know enough about philosophy to understand the meaning.)
Good is subjective, but processes like democracy can turn our many subjective definitions of good into a single objective definition for use in government.
Good is a metric we use for comparing possible outcomes of actions when we make choices (good for me, good for society, good for God, etc.) Of course free will may be an illusion. In that case, even subjective good is an illusion?
Sorry that's the best I can do.
