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by Immanuel Can
Sat Mar 23, 2024 8:22 pm
Forum: Ethical Theory
Topic: Is morality objective or subjective?
Replies: 9236
Views: 744863

Re: Is morality objective or subjective?

Hunger is just a feeling, but it is very difficult to ignore it, and that's how it also is with conscience. I agree. There's a point where a person can feel horrible about something we've done and seek to remedy it or refrain from ever doing it again. And it can't be just wished away or swept under...
by Immanuel Can
Sat Mar 23, 2024 8:06 pm
Forum: Political Philosophy
Topic: Is Conservatism just NeoTraditionalism these days?
Replies: 246
Views: 3131

Re: Is Conservatism just NeoTraditionalism these days?

"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." (So say the pigs in George Orwell's Animal Farm .) The communists created their own privileged nobility. People often don't practice what they preach, but it is not true that all socialists (including social democrats) ...
by Immanuel Can
Sat Mar 23, 2024 7:53 pm
Forum: Ethical Theory
Topic: Is morality objective or subjective?
Replies: 9236
Views: 744863

Re: Is morality objective or subjective?

You see, Gary, if according to your worldview, "conscience" is no more than a feeling Hunger is just a feeling, but it is very difficult to ignore it, and that's how it also is with conscience. Difficult? Not really, apparently. Conscience is nowhere near so urgent as hunger, because even...
by Immanuel Can
Sat Mar 23, 2024 7:03 pm
Forum: Ethical Theory
Topic: Is morality objective or subjective?
Replies: 9236
Views: 744863

Re: Is morality objective or subjective?

Even when I was an atheist I had a conscience. I don't deny you did, and that you do now. But if you'll forgive me, for the present discussion, that's not a very interesting fact, because it doesn't say anything about why you're obligated to follow that conscience. :shock: Maybe you're not. Maybe &...
by Immanuel Can
Sat Mar 23, 2024 6:54 pm
Forum: Political Philosophy
Topic: Is Conservatism just NeoTraditionalism these days?
Replies: 246
Views: 3131

Re: Is Conservatism just NeoTraditionalism these days?

Leftists share an affinity for egalitarianism . (But they don't all share the same opinion regarding the kinds and degrees of egalitarianism.) That's nominal, though. In practice, they don't believe in equality, but in inequality (as in "equity") and in elitism (as in the elite Marxists g...
by Immanuel Can
Fri Mar 22, 2024 10:14 pm
Forum: Ethical Theory
Topic: Is morality objective or subjective?
Replies: 9236
Views: 744863

Re: Is morality objective or subjective?

Gary Childress wrote: Fri Mar 22, 2024 10:04 pm Celebrate Recovery
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by Immanuel Can
Fri Mar 22, 2024 10:13 pm
Forum: Ethical Theory
Topic: Is morality objective or subjective?
Replies: 9236
Views: 744863

Re: Is morality objective or subjective?

...it would be impossible to live with oneself if one went about doing what is literally the worst, cruelest and most wicked thing one can do to another human being -- denying him the knowledge of God, so his death is followed by a lost eternity. But don't take my word for it. The same obvious poin...
by Immanuel Can
Fri Mar 22, 2024 10:09 pm
Forum: Ethical Theory
Topic: Is morality objective or subjective?
Replies: 9236
Views: 744863

Re: Is morality objective or subjective?

But if you go out and screw someone over, then by all means, ask God for forgiveness. It'll probably be a lot easier than facing the person you owe it to, though, irrelevant. Well, reparations are part of repentance, so that's not good enough. Somebody who is really changing their mind about how th...
by Immanuel Can
Fri Mar 22, 2024 9:08 pm
Forum: Political Philosophy
Topic: Is Conservatism just NeoTraditionalism these days?
Replies: 246
Views: 3131

Re: Is Conservatism just NeoTraditionalism these days?

Leftists share an affinity for egalitarianism . (But they don't all share the same opinion regarding the kinds and degrees of egalitarianism.) That's nominal, though. In practice, they don't believe in equality, but in inequality (as in "equity") and in elitism (as in the elite Marxists g...
by Immanuel Can
Fri Mar 22, 2024 8:47 pm
Forum: Ethical Theory
Topic: Is morality objective or subjective?
Replies: 9236
Views: 744863

Re: Is morality objective or subjective?

To be honest, it's kind of insulting to think that a serial killer can theoretically repent and go to Heaven and someone like me would go to Hell basically for no other reason than I don't feign reverence for a God that I don't think deserves reverence. Well, I guess you could say the Apostle Paul ...
by Immanuel Can
Fri Mar 22, 2024 8:39 pm
Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
Topic: Moral Compass
Replies: 262
Views: 11213

Re: Moral Compass

Matter follows natural Law, and this is understandable if you don’t confuse yourself. But we could just have asked Torah . For in Genesis, the very first verse, it tells us, "In the beginning, God created the Heavens and the Earth." I have already said that the Torah should be understood ...
by Immanuel Can
Fri Mar 22, 2024 8:37 pm
Forum: Political Philosophy
Topic: Is Conservatism just NeoTraditionalism these days?
Replies: 246
Views: 3131

Re: Is Conservatism just NeoTraditionalism these days?

FlashDangerpants wrote: Fri Mar 22, 2024 1:09 pm I thought it was worth looking at this supposed commitment that Conservatives have to checks and balances. But if we cannot get past some confusion about the word "institution" then that would be a pipe dream.
Maybe it is. What is your thinking on that?
by Immanuel Can
Fri Mar 22, 2024 6:19 pm
Forum: Political Philosophy
Topic: Is Conservatism just NeoTraditionalism these days?
Replies: 246
Views: 3131

Re: Is Conservatism just NeoTraditionalism these days?

I'm sorry but here you are simply sbjecting the thing you like (the right) to a less difficult test than the thing you don't like (The Left). For a very good reason: that both sides misunderstand each other when they imagine they're the same. That's a very common human error, called "projectio...
by Immanuel Can
Fri Mar 22, 2024 5:01 pm
Forum: Ethical Theory
Topic: Is morality objective or subjective?
Replies: 9236
Views: 744863

Re: Is morality objective or subjective?

Your belief that we are going to die is based on solid evidence, and probably personal observation, you didn't just get it out of some old book, or a Christmas cracker. You know what else I believe? We're all going to die. Not just me. And I'm right about that, too. We've just covered that one, and...
by Immanuel Can
Thu Mar 21, 2024 10:18 pm
Forum: Ethical Theory
Topic: Is morality objective or subjective?
Replies: 9236
Views: 744863

Re: Is morality objective or subjective?

My belief doesn't make it false either. I believe that we are all going to die. That's also true. Your belief that we are going to die is based on solid evidence, and probably personal observation, you didn't just get it out of some old book, or a Christmas cracker. You know what else I believe? We...