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Originally Posted by TJ Eckleburg12
Let me see if I'm reading this right...
lagtight is saying that the framework of morality comes from God. That people killing babies for fun or flying planes into buildings are doing evil, because God teaches what is right and what is wrong through Scripture. In fact, having a moral framework in and of itself is proof of God's existence. If there exists different degrees of morality, that some things are morally better than other things, then that implies that if you go further and further Morally Right, you reach perfection, and that is God.
Meanwhile, Fella is saying that the people that flew those planes into those buildings were acting from their own moral framework. Their interpretation of morality led them to do a terrible thing, and they were as certain in their beliefs being right as lagtight is certain that it's wrong to murder/suicide 3k people. It's disingenuous and relativistic to compare or conflate the two frameworks. Most of all, for humans historically it has been an abused and corrupting power to get to be the one who decides for societal purposes which is right and which is wrong.
Am I on the right track?
Ethics is abstract so when one tries to personify it into a god they are basically just making it up ... a pure fiction. Even if morality does revert back to a god, which one? Oh, the one prominent in my time and place, in my culture, of course. What's the problem with that? LOL.
Ethicists are hardly those in political power, corrupted by their positions. Forfeiting agency in morality and ethics to personified, fictional, brutal, ignorant, ancient, superstitious, magical thinking peoples and gods is evil, not moral.