Christians, Prove Your God Is Good

[The Reality Salesman01]

Is it being argued that people commit genocide, or is the point of discussion whether or not genocide is moral? I think anyone would be hard up to find moral constraints within the spoils of war. Couldn't it be possible that morality is only descriptive of a standard of behavior? If we say that this standard is maximizing the wellbeing of all people, then certainly it can be said that there are better and worse ways of behaving in practice if not in principle. If,for example, one group did not share this ideal standard of behavior or, perhaps their idea of maximizing well being is different. Maybe their standard of behavior is based on a dogmatic ideology that the rest of the world doesn't share? And if within this standard, a higher importance is placed on the preservation of the dogma rather than human wellbeing? Of the two standards, could there be objectively better ways to behave? And one society deems human wellbeing to come before all other things, and the other society has decided that the annihilation of those who don't share their dogmatic worldview, Im inclined to say that this is an oil and water collision of human values and it's very likely that some form of genocide is going to occur. But to avoid this, it has to be agreed that the only way to have an honest discussion about morals, we have to agree that the standard worth upholding is the one that considers our actions and decisions, their effect on maximizing the well being of conscious creatures, and more specifically, values the lives of people as ends in themselves. If there is another thing more valuable than this, I can't think of what it would be.