RE: The Objective Moral Values Argument AGAINST The Existence Of God
May 2, 2018 at 9:15 am
(This post was last modified: May 2, 2018 at 9:16 am by robvalue.)
Sure, causing/seeing needless harm is something that makes most people feel bad. That's as universal/objective as you're going to get, and it's just a direct result of our evolution. If we'd instead evolved as solitary creatures with no benefit to cooperating, morality would never have emerged as an idea.
Even if it was considered universal to all humans, which it demonstrably isn't, it would still only be the point of view of how humans feel about things. Other life forms may feel entirely differently, and it obviously had no meaning before humans evolved. It's a construct we came up with to examine our own evolutionary tendencies.
(We do see it in some other life forms on Earth of course.)
Even if it was considered universal to all humans, which it demonstrably isn't, it would still only be the point of view of how humans feel about things. Other life forms may feel entirely differently, and it obviously had no meaning before humans evolved. It's a construct we came up with to examine our own evolutionary tendencies.
(We do see it in some other life forms on Earth of course.)
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