RE: Christians, Prove Your God Is Good
February 28, 2015 at 12:29 pm
(This post was last modified: February 28, 2015 at 12:29 pm by Whateverist.)
(February 28, 2015 at 10:34 am)Ignorant Wrote: I have actually been giving morality a great deal of thought. ... What I have also found is that, having accepted these moral concepts and principles as "simply" true or "commonly" held, most people don't know how to articulate exactly what they mean by those terms.
Well that is pretty ignorant. [Sorry but I always go for the obvious pun, is that not good?]
Seriously though I wonder what difference it truly makes to articulate a crisp definition of what are morally good and bad acts. Should we then make it our reason for living to do 'the good' and 'avoid the bad'? Who would call that a 'good' life? To me it all seems too self-conscious and myopically focused. Life is more complex than that.
I will often enough choose the expedient at the expense of the virtuous. Who doesn't? Does that mean I will throw people under a bus to save five minutes ore five dollars? No. But neither do I need to anticipate every possible set of choices and how I could/should respond in advance. Whatever decision I would reach now, I could reach then and there is something to be said for spontaneity.
