Objective morality: how would it affect your judgement/actions?

[Angrboda]

The Tale of the Eloquent Peasant is a literary work from the Middle Kingdom of Egypt (2040-1782 BCE) which illustrates the value society placed on the concept of justice and equality under the law. In the story, a peasant named Khun-Anup is beaten and robbed by Nemtynakht, a wealthy landowner, who then tells him there is no use in complaining to the authorities because no one will listen to a poor man. The rest of the tale relates how Khun-Anup, believing in the power of justice, refutes Nemtynakht and wins his case.

The Eloquent Peasant & Egyptian Justice

Are you suggesting that Western liberal values came from Middle Kingdom Egypt? If not, then your reference is irrelevant. If so, then you have a very warped understanding of European intellectual history. And furthermore, it opens up a very problematic possibility for your position. How can two independent moral traditions reach similar conclusions unless there is a common element that transcends the particulars or both cultures?

Since Khemikal already pointed out that our common humanity transcends both European cultural history as well as Egyptian, I'll simply reference his point. Your claim that the moral values which our society embraces have their origin in Judeo-Christianity is pure bollocks. Ethics and morals in common with our own predate Judeo-Christianity significantly. Your apparent belief that Judaism and Christianity invented these moral values is fucking moronic and revisionist history at best. Maybe before you accuse someone else of having a warped view of history you should first extricate the beam from your own eye.

[Silver]

Since Khemikal already pointed out that our common humanity transcends both European cultural history as well as Egyptian, I'll simply reference his point. Your claim that the moral values which our society embraces have their origin in Judeo-Christianity is pure bollocks. Ethics and morals in common with our own predate Judeo-Christianity significantly. Your apparent belief that Judaism and Christianity invented these moral values is fucking moronic and revisionist history at best. Maybe before you accuse someone else of having a warped view of history you should first extricate the beam from your own eye.

You and Khemical provided the perfect responses to him that I could not. Thank you.

[SaStrike]

It would affect my judgements and actions objectively *adjusts glasses*