RE: What IS good, and how do we determine it?
June 20, 2015 at 11:09 pm
(This post was last modified: June 20, 2015 at 11:10 pm by Catholic_Lady.)
(June 20, 2015 at 11:04 pm)SnakeOilWarrior Wrote:(June 20, 2015 at 7:02 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: I probably would have been ok with it too. But that's not the point.
That is exactly the point. You're trying to argue moral absolutism which, by the very fact that morality changes over time, is proven wrong. If morality were objective, we'd still be keeping slaves from the nations 'round about us and thinking nothing of it.
No it is not. I could have been ok with enslaving Africans and burning women who get raped, and plenty of people have been and still are ok with one or both of those. But that doesn't make it actually ok. It makes the people who believe it's ok, horribly wrong.
Americans did used to own slaves. It didn't make it ok then, as it is not ok now. And slavery still exists. So does the burning of rape victims.
"Of course, everyone will claim they respect someone who tries to speak the truth, but in reality, this is a rare quality. Most respect those who speak truths they agree with, and their respect for the speaking only extends as far as their realm of personal agreement. It is less common, almost to the point of becoming a saintly virtue, that someone truly respects and loves the truth seeker, even when their conclusions differ wildly."
-walsh
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