RE: Atheism and Ethics
August 1, 2024 at 11:18 am
(This post was last modified: August 1, 2024 at 11:23 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(August 1, 2024 at 10:00 am)Disagreeable Wrote:(July 28, 2024 at 4:27 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: In a very boring and completely non novel way.
How would you respond to a Divine Command Theorist who says that God could mass kill a whole bunch of humans and it wouldn't be morally wrong because what's morally right is whatever God wills? How would you argue for your own definition of moral goodness?
The same way I'd respond to any other rando who claims that their commanding a thing is the morality-making property. When I talk about morality I'm talking about right and wrong, good and bad, help and harm - not who said what.
At the end of the day, if a person is a genuine subjectivist or emotivist, as that claim would entail..then the objective properties of a given x and rational argumentation from demonstrable facts aren't relevant to them in the first place.
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