RE: My views on objective morality
March 12, 2016 at 2:51 am
(This post was last modified: March 12, 2016 at 2:54 am by bennyboy.)
(March 12, 2016 at 2:33 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: You're saying that before you even fully understand the Catholic's position. Culpability can be lessened for many reasons. A traumatic childhood or upbringing can be one of them.
Show me a criminal that doesn't have something bad in his past, his DNA, or his brain chemistry that mediates his behavior. Even where one plans an evil act for months, why is it that some people do this, and others do not? It is because their natures, which they did not originate, and whose environmental influences they did not dictate, led them to be that kind of person.
Science can now show that things like brain development affect mood and behavior. So people who commit acts you consider "evil" are actually dysfunctional: they have an inability to feel properly, to control behaviors properly, to understand consequences properly, etc. And their reward for having to suffer through a life of dysfunction? God (who either caused or at least allowed the dysfunction) either turns his back on them, or causes them to suffer for all eternity.
If culpability can be lessened for a predisposition to do evil, than all evil-doers must go to Heaven, since none of them are responsible for their predispositions.
In my opinion, God should go to Hell, because he's the only sentient entity that we might argue cannot be intrinsically dyfunctional, and who can therefore be considered fully culpable for the many evils he either commits or allows to be committed.
