RE: What IS good, and how do we determine it?
June 16, 2015 at 1:31 pm
(This post was last modified: June 16, 2015 at 1:38 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Quote:Well the point of "moral truth" is that there is no such thing and "my" and "your" moral truth lol. Conflicting things can't both be true. There is only one moral truth.
None of that really answered my question at all, but I can roll forward anyway. The trouble we're having...you and I are in this together.....is that there simply -are- more moral truths than just our shared moral truth, we both share the opinion that our shared moral truth is superior, is more moral, is right, is -actually- true...but that doesn't change the -fact- that they disagree. If someone asked you why you held to this moral truth...what would you tell them, in what ways do you think it would be different than what I would tell them?
Surely "god said so" is low on that list......it hasn't convined -you- when other religions have used it, has it? I'd be willing to bet that both you and I place "god said so" in pretty much the same place, when it comes to demonstrations of a moral truth or objective standard. Hell, if god hadn't said so......you and I still do, right?
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