RE: List of reasons to believe God exists?
December 8, 2017 at 7:46 pm
(This post was last modified: December 8, 2017 at 7:55 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(December 8, 2017 at 6:40 pm)SteveII Wrote: First, thanks for the writing practice.I think so too...but I wouldn't saddle it with the absurd baggage of an argument for a god. No need.
I am not arguing that you're not a moral realist. I think most people are intuitively so--whether a theist or not (that's one of the premises of the moral argument for God).
Quote:I am arguing epistemology. If a moral system can produce ambiguity as described above and then leaves it to people to insert their biases caused by feelings/ideas/opinions to make up the balance of the consideration as to a moral question, then that is simply not an objective system. It may produce objective results in most cases, but it is not an objective system.
Something isn't any less objective just because subjective agents are capable of finding a place to insert their subjectivity. I've been trying to explain this to you for some time now. Nor would an objective system always provide full or complete answers to any question. It could only provide as much as there were relevant facts available...and if relevant facts are missing..well..that's that.
Moral realism isn't a magic bullet that provides a curt answer to every moral question with no ambiguity, absolutely and in every scenario regardless of circumstance - it can;t while simultaneously satisfying the defining criteria of an objective moral system. Though, in the case of abortion, at least in my assessment, there is no ambiguity. All relevant facts considered, it would be morally and legally abhorrent to sentence women to childbirth. Full stop.
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