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If morality is "objective" then shouldn't it be just that the strong thrive and the weak do not. Quite the opposite, in the Christian telling of things: the weak should be helped by the strong, and the strong will answer for their callousness, if they do not. In fact, that's one of the th...

As a Christian who claims to have "objective" morality at your calling, maybe you can give a definitive answer as to the following: A woman is raped by a psychopathic male and is impregnated. She wants no part of having that man's baby. Is it OK for her to abort the fetus before giving bi...

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. And you have been repeatedly asked for a single objective moral rule. Yep. The most modest and minimal request that c...

A logic deals with language: what can be said consistently, without contradiction. You're confusing logic with language . Logic employs language, but they aren't identical. Language can exist without conforming to logic. And in fact, most language is loose and inaccurate. Logic is the disciplining ...

Infinite regress is only logically impossible because as we minds of logic cannot comprehend of a place of true CHAOS..no logic. No, it's impossible to those who trust in the existence of causality . That is, those who believe in science, or in the experience of their own eyes, as they see it every...

Well, if you read the context, you'll find out he was not talking about everything a person could ever know, such as about science or about moral knowledge, but about understanding of the nature of God's plan of salvation, particularly the salvation of Israel (Romans 11:28-32). I think a word is ne...

If morality is "objective" then shouldn't it be just that the strong thrive and the weak do not. Quite the opposite, in the Christian telling of things: the weak should be helped by the strong, and the strong will answer for their callousness, if they do not. In fact, that's one of the th...

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...