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RE: How to easily defeat any argument for God
August 18, 2019 at 10:40 am
(August 18, 2019 at 9:52 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: (August 18, 2019 at 6:13 am)Acrobat Wrote: .If slavery ultimately benefited our wellbeing in the long run, by 200 years of free labor, significantly contributing to why we're the wealthiest country today, have the resources, etc.. we have today. Would this make it no longer immoral?
But slavery didn't benefit society considering that many people died in civil war and that society still looks down on black people resulting still in many inequalities, like black families being generally poorer than white families.
Long term benefits, and the comparison would
be would the lives of the descendants and future generation of blacks have been better in Africa. I’m not saying their lives are better than an alternative in which slavery didn’t take place, but assuming these future generations our nation as whole was better in the long run, if more people benefitted for those 200 years of slavery, in the long run (ultimate increase in wellbeing) would it make it moral, or any less immoral? The point I’m making is that wellbeing, especially in the long term, doesn’t make things right and wrong.
It would have been wrong based on the treatment of blacks, regardless of the benefits it could offer society as a whole.
Hence why I don’t view well being as a good objective for morality. First and foremost because that’s not how morality works, and in most cases like slavery were just retro fitting well being after the fact, rather than any of us objectively trying to analyze the long term
Benefits vs negative impacts, and deciding where on a moral judgement after doing so. We decided it was immoral regardless, of this.
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RE: How to easily defeat any argument for God
August 18, 2019 at 12:16 pm
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(August 18, 2019 at 10:40 am)Acrobat Wrote: (August 18, 2019 at 9:52 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: But slavery didn't benefit society considering that many people died in civil war and that society still looks down on black people resulting still in many inequalities, like black families being generally poorer than white families.
Long term benefits, and the comparison would
be would the lives of the descendants and future generation of blacks have been better in Africa. I’m not saying their lives are better than an alternative in which slavery didn’t take place, but assuming these future generations our nation as whole was better in the long run, if more people benefitted for those 200 years of slavery, in the long run (ultimate increase in wellbeing) would it make it moral, or any less immoral? The point I’m making is that wellbeing, especially in the long term, doesn’t make things right and wrong.
It would have been wrong based on the treatment of blacks, regardless of the benefits it could offer society as a whole.
Hence why I don’t view well being as a good objective for morality. First and foremost because that’s not how morality works, and in most cases like slavery were just retro fitting well being after the fact, rather than any of us objectively trying to analyze the long term
Benefits vs negative impacts, and deciding where on a moral judgement after doing so. We decided it was immoral regardless, of this.
This assumes that slavery could ever increase the wellbeing of slaveholders in such a significant way as to override the decrease in wellbeing of the slaves. Perhaps this may be so in fantasy scenarios, but I'm not convinced this has ever been the case in real life.
Also note that you have not yet given a rational basis as to why slavery would be wrong. If it's not to do with wellbeing, then what is it then?
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RE: How to easily defeat any argument for God
August 18, 2019 at 3:14 pm
(August 18, 2019 at 10:13 am)Dmitry1983 Wrote: (August 17, 2019 at 9:44 pm)Abaddon_ire Wrote: No, the moment you defended slavery, you lost any moral standing. There is nothing wrong with slavery if God allows it.
You have no moral objection to slavery? Really?
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RE: How to easily defeat any argument for God
August 18, 2019 at 3:49 pm
(August 18, 2019 at 12:16 pm)Grandizer Wrote: (August 18, 2019 at 10:40 am)Acrobat Wrote: Long term benefits, and the comparison would
be would the lives of the descendants and future generation of blacks have been better in Africa. I’m not saying their lives are better than an alternative in which slavery didn’t take place, but assuming these future generations our nation as whole was better in the long run, if more people benefitted for those 200 years of slavery, in the long run (ultimate increase in wellbeing) would it make it moral, or any less immoral? The point I’m making is that wellbeing, especially in the long term, doesn’t make things right and wrong.
It would have been wrong based on the treatment of blacks, regardless of the benefits it could offer society as a whole.
Hence why I don’t view well being as a good objective for morality. First and foremost because that’s not how morality works, and in most cases like slavery were just retro fitting well being after the fact, rather than any of us objectively trying to analyze the long term
Benefits vs negative impacts, and deciding where on a moral judgement after doing so. We decided it was immoral regardless, of this.
This assumes that slavery could ever increase the wellbeing of slaveholders in such a significant way as to override the decrease in wellbeing of the slaves. Perhaps this may be so in fantasy scenarios, but I'm not convinced this has ever been the case in real life.
Also note that you have not yet given a rational basis as to why slavery would be wrong. If it's not to do with wellbeing, then what is it then?
Because it denied slaves their humanity, sustained through hatred, cruelty and lies, such as blacks were less than whites. It required the denial of black people as people no less than you or I. It wasn’t wrong because people calculated that it would be harmful for the wellbeing of society in the long run, it was seen as wrong inspite of such a consideration.
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RE: How to easily defeat any argument for God
August 18, 2019 at 6:17 pm
(August 18, 2019 at 3:49 pm)Acrobat Wrote: (August 18, 2019 at 12:16 pm)Grandizer Wrote: This assumes that slavery could ever increase the wellbeing of slaveholders in such a significant way as to override the decrease in wellbeing of the slaves. Perhaps this may be so in fantasy scenarios, but I'm not convinced this has ever been the case in real life.
Also note that you have not yet given a rational basis as to why slavery would be wrong. If it's not to do with wellbeing, then what is it then?
Because it denied slaves their humanity, sustained through hatred, cruelty and lies, such as blacks were less than whites. It required the denial of black people as people no less than you or I. It wasn’t wrong because people calculated that it would be harmful for the wellbeing of society in the long run, it was seen as wrong inspite of such a consideration.
You can reword what you just said in terms of wellbeing. Denying slaves their humanity is akin to saying it's disregarding their wellbeing. There is no need to calculate in this case anyway. It's clear it's wrong.
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RE: How to easily defeat any argument for God
August 19, 2019 at 3:05 am
(August 18, 2019 at 3:14 pm)Abaddon_ire Wrote: (August 18, 2019 at 10:13 am)Dmitry1983 Wrote: There is nothing wrong with slavery if God allows it.
You have no moral objection to slavery? Really? I can't argue with God.
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RE: How to easily defeat any argument for God
August 19, 2019 at 5:42 am
(August 19, 2019 at 3:05 am)Dmitry1983 Wrote: (August 18, 2019 at 3:14 pm)Abaddon_ire Wrote: You have no moral objection to slavery? Really? I can't argue with God.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxXEPk3dzFg
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RE: How to easily defeat any argument for God
August 19, 2019 at 6:34 am
(August 19, 2019 at 3:05 am)Dmitry1983 Wrote: I can't argue with God.
Why not?
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: How to easily defeat any argument for God
August 19, 2019 at 6:57 am
(August 19, 2019 at 3:05 am)Dmitry1983 Wrote: (August 18, 2019 at 3:14 pm)Abaddon_ire Wrote: You have no moral objection to slavery? Really? I can't argue with God.
Of course you can. You simply lack the moral courage. That is nobodies problem but yours.
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RE: How to easily defeat any argument for God
August 19, 2019 at 7:59 am
(August 19, 2019 at 6:34 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: (August 19, 2019 at 3:05 am)Dmitry1983 Wrote: I can't argue with God.
Why not?
I'm a mere mortal while God is all-poweful.
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