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Originally Posted by lagtight
No it isn't.
How do you know that genocide is wrong? Did the "Big Bang" tell you?
How do you know that murder is wrong? Did the "Big Bang" tell you?
Who or what determines what decency is? And by what authority does he/she/it derive that authority? The Big Bang? Popular vote? Donald Trump? Tea leaves? Jon Gruden?
Your whole appeal reveals abject authoritarianism. Your whole spiel presumes that someone has to tell you. "Somebody tell me what is right and wrong, that is cast in stone, can never change. Oh, it doesn't work like that? Why not?"
Nothing much works like that. Nobody knows for sure all the answers to morality questions and situations, you have to think about it and apply values. "Yeah but if we make up a supernatural ruler then we can be spoon fed the answer, we can claim the answer is cast in stone, never changes, is omniscient, etc." Yes, and funny, you can do the same for mathematics, medicine, cosmology, pretty much across the board. But for some reason, even zealots understand that they have to think, learn, figure it out, get things wrong, try to correct them, be uncertain about many things that we don't know or that could change with better understanding. Hello to the real universe ... if you please. If you don't, supernaturalist authoritarianism, faith, superstition ... will do. Then we are free to believe that the guy that says stone unruly children and gays, kill witches ... he is the one with perfect moral knowledge.
Last edited by FellaGaga-52; 12-03-2021 at 12:07 PM.