RE: What IS good, and how do we determine it?
June 16, 2015 at 12:11 pm
(This post was last modified: June 16, 2015 at 12:18 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Then why do you balk at the death of the firstborn? God decreed this, and god defines the good.
I agree, btw, they are being immoral regardless of what they believe......but this is, again, my subjective morality, and in this conversation -our- subjective morality. You and I are perfectly capable of reaching the same conclusion. Now, if I asked you -why- it was wrong, would you tell me that it is because god has defined it as such? Don't you think there might be a more persuasive, and entirely less fanciful answer to that question? Would you approach ISIS with the killer "god defines it" argument of moral superiority?
-because I wouldn't. I find this no more persuasive than -you- do when ISIS says that god has defined the good, and that -their- actions are the divinely just ones.
I agree, btw, they are being immoral regardless of what they believe......but this is, again, my subjective morality, and in this conversation -our- subjective morality. You and I are perfectly capable of reaching the same conclusion. Now, if I asked you -why- it was wrong, would you tell me that it is because god has defined it as such? Don't you think there might be a more persuasive, and entirely less fanciful answer to that question? Would you approach ISIS with the killer "god defines it" argument of moral superiority?
-because I wouldn't. I find this no more persuasive than -you- do when ISIS says that god has defined the good, and that -their- actions are the divinely just ones.
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