RE: Objective morality as a proper basic belief
June 24, 2017 at 7:28 pm
(This post was last modified: June 24, 2017 at 7:29 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
(June 24, 2017 at 6:17 pm)Khemikal Wrote: I, a moral objectivist, subjectively engage in whatever I can grasp of whatever moral objectivity I propose there to be. I physically and literally cannot do otherwise, even if I wanted to...which I do.
More than that...I will, when it's compelling...do something I consider to be objectively evil. I have. I will again - and were not talking about picking the wrong color drapes here. I'm a legitimate danger to my fellow man regardless of the fact that I accept an objective moral schema based on harm.
I.....will....harm....people....... This secular conception of evil is analagous to the religious concept of sin, and it's equally available to the religious absolutist despite being identifiably godless.
Don't beat yaself up, brotha ... we're all fallen.
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