(November 11, 2020 at 8:49 pm)MilesAbbott81 Wrote:We teach our kids plenty of lessons by maintaining instructive fictions - and I don't doubt the instructive nature of this fiction any more than I doubt those others.(November 11, 2020 at 8:42 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: So you've said, but you've yet to explain how, which is what I keep asking over and over only to have you babble more about a god. If moral responsibility requires a moral agent with a moral choice, how could moral responsibility be maintained in the absence of that moral choice?
And that's why I answered that moral responsibility is maintained, to a degree, for the purpose of instruction. God is merciful and realizes what He is doing to us, so He doesn't punish us according to our sins, but according to our need for instruction.
Still...fiction. If moral responsibility requires a moral agent and a moral choice, then a non-moral agent with no moral choice cant be held morally responsible. Do we agree or disagree, here?
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