RE: Good and Evil
May 7, 2015 at 3:56 pm
(This post was last modified: May 7, 2015 at 3:58 pm by Mudhammam.)
(May 7, 2015 at 10:33 am)bennyboy Wrote:(May 7, 2015 at 9:14 am)ChadWooters Wrote: Charles Manson said the same thing.
And he wasn't wrong.
He was wrong! Per me!
But in all seriousness, why would anyone resist laughing me out of the room if I said the following statement?"As God of my own existence, I hereby decree myself, and only myself, qualified to decide what is true and false." Or, instead of true and false, "rational and irrational." Or, "scientific and unscientific." Just as we believe there are critics of art who have more experience in determining what is good art versus bad art, and experts in the sciences who are better at interpreting data (which we also determine in large part by the consensus of expertise), and so on and so forth, why wouldn't we also believe there are moral philosophers who have also spent more time analyzing different states of the mind and situations whereby people experienced greater fulfillment out of life so as to trust their judgment (supported by facts and reasons, of course) about ethics in the same way that we rely on other experts?
He who loves God cannot endeavour that God should love him in return - Baruch Spinoza
