RE: Simple question for Christians.
July 17, 2015 at 9:28 am
(This post was last modified: July 17, 2015 at 9:29 am by Kingpin.)
(July 17, 2015 at 9:22 am)robvalue Wrote: Morality is very easy to explain, actually. Evolution. We evolved as a cooperate species. Those that cared about others and looked after those around them as well as themselves did better, so those qualities are prevalent. These are what we are likely to pass on to our children, and to learn from society as well. This explains why there is an overlap in a lot of topics of morality, and also why there is no consensus. We're all individuals.
Morality is about increasing the wellbeing to those you think are important, and minimising harm to the same. There is no cosmic "right and wrong" about it, that makes no sense.
Once you've decided what is important, let's say human life, you can rate actions as more moral than others, at least very broadly. Helping someone cross the street is more moral than smashing their head in with a rock.
Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler held this same viewpoint, but came to very different conclusions than you on what was the moral thing to do. If you hold to the relativistic basis of morality how can you claim that smashing someones head in with a rock is less moral? Maybe for you.
Without on ontic referent you cannot define what is "right" and "wrong". You can build a structure, but without a foundation it will collapse.
We are not made happy by what we acquire but by what we appreciate.
