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If He told us "perspective independently", then why did Paul write: "O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments." Well, if you read the context, you'll find out he was not talking about everything a person could ever kno...

Sculptor wrote: ↑Tue May 21, 2024 9:44 pm

Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Tue May 21, 2024 6:52 pm

Sculptor wrote: ↑Tue May 21, 2024 6:48 pm
Easy.

You say "easy," but I don't see one. If it's "easy," where is it?

My moral landscape cannot be reduced to a few empty platitudes.

An excuse.

You were only asked for one thing. One. It could not be simpler for you, and still, you cannot do it.

QED.

IC's distinction of objective and subjective morality is a distinction without a difference. You should talk to Peter Holmes, then. He thinks it's a real distinction, and of some importance. As do I, of course. Use subjective when you’re talking about an opinion or feeling that is based on an indiv...

So are you going to rationalise the moral wrongness of slavery, or what? Me? It's you who stands in need of it. I'm already convinced, and based on good reasons. God exists, man is created in His image, and to abuse a fellow human being who rightfully belongs to God is, of course, immoral. But you ...

It’s sad—at least it saddens me—that the world is a might-makes-right environment. The effective attorney is one who has legal might. I agree. It's very sad. But if the world is "survival-of-the-fittest," then the one who has the most effective attorney is the "most fit" in the ...

As an agnostic, I have an open mind on the matter of God’s existence. I am looking for a rational proof and/or empirical evidence that God in fact does exist. Are you? Well, then, I can point you to a great quantity of literature where you can find all the demonstrations of it you may ever need. Wh...

Might-is-right will forever favor the fittest and most evolved humans. This is what the guy with the little toothbrush mustache believed. It was also an astonishingly popular view back in the US, where they were sterilizing "inferior races" and promoting aborting minority children, before...

Mathematics is a language. Only Platonists think mathematical objects are real. Nobody said "Mathematical objects are real," so you'll have to take that up with somebody who thinks it. What was said was simply that mathematics has a highly-applicable correspondence to the real world (most...

I genuinely believe that slavery is wrong, but I can't give you a rational explanation for that belief. The reason for that is simple. Subjectivism gives you no basis to do so at all. So you're realizing the truth of that. I can give you a rational explanation as to why I don't want to be enslaved,...

As an agnostic, I have an open mind on the matter of God’s existence. I am looking for a rational proof and/or empirical evidence that God in fact does exist. Are you? Well, then, I can point you to a great quantity of literature where you can find all the demonstrations of it you may ever need. Wh...

Okay, explain why slavery is wrong. I only have an emotional, sentimental case to put, but my view is that emotion and sentiment are the essence of morality. You set out the rational case without it just being a matter of practicality, or expediency. Well, are we both convinced that slavery is actu...

commonsense wrote: ↑Tue May 21, 2024 8:02 pm Breaking a law—a just law—is immoral.

Why?

Morality doesn’t exist. What does exist is dog-eat-dog survival of the fittest, which has existed since the time of prehistoric humans. I commend you on your logic...perhaps not so much on the ensuing morality. You have a good grasp of the logic of people like Nietzsche and Spencer also, in some wa...

I’ll say it: I give up, IC. You’re right, IC. Except for being wrong about God being the basis of Objective Morality. Well, that's an empirical question. If God exists, then as the Supreme Being and Creator of all, then obviously he's the basis of everything that's real. So the only question is the...

Let's start with something you can be quite sure you and I can agree is morally right, or something we can both agree is morally wrong. I'll totally let you pick it. The field is wide open to you. What will you pick? Charity? Slavery? Racism? Theft? Educating women? Foreign aid? Feeding the hungry?...