(November 9, 2011 at 9:51 pm)Rhythm Wrote: It's only circular if you assume some objective morality, which I don't, no soup for you. What is morally righteous? Whatever any given culture decided to describe as such at any given time (subject to revision, abandonment, etc). I present the entirety of cultural anthropology as actual evidence of this statement, instead of mental masturbation under the charming (but in your case inaccurate) guise of "logic".
Ah, so if the people living in Nazi Germany deem genocide against the Jews as morally acceptable then it was?
(November 10, 2011 at 10:33 am)Rhythm Wrote: Minor correction to 1a.
When you die we know exactly what happens, and heaven is a fairy tale, never proven to exist. It's wishful thinking leveraged towards a desire to avoid mortality, which is pretty common.
Argument from ignorance again.
