(August 25, 2010 at 12:12 pm)EvidenceVsFaith Wrote: If you're a moral nihilist, do you need a basis to condemn anything?
No, but I'm sure there's something they'd like to condemn. If someone, say, beat up their granny, they'd be a bit pissed off if the culprit got off scot-free. But they couldn't say, 'That's not fair!' because fairness is a moral concept. Of course, they could take the law into their own hands, but they'd still feel a sense of entitlement to do so, no doubt.
'We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.' H.L. Mencken
'False religion' is the ultimate tautology.
'It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.' Mark Twain
'I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.' Abraham Lincoln
'False religion' is the ultimate tautology.
'It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.' Mark Twain
'I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.' Abraham Lincoln
