Not me. You. I asked you.Harbal wrote: ↑Thu Sep 19, 2024 1:00 amYou have chosen to base your moral position on God,...Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Thu Sep 19, 2024 12:04 amWait.Harbal wrote: ↑Wed Sep 18, 2024 11:40 pm I must say that your assertion that God, the demands of God, the demands of religion, must come before all else is something I find disturbing.. Before family, before friends, before all human beings? No, that can't go unchallenged. That's wrong, IC, it's just plain wrong.
How can anything be...what's your word? "Wrong"?If you live in a universe with no god, and hence no moral absolutes, how can you suppose that doing ANYTHING can be "wrong"? You'll have to explain that one to me, if you can.
How do you come up with a designation like "wrong," (which clearly you expect others to agree with, even if I decide I don't, and which plausibly you also think I should agree with, if I were thinking "rightly," I must assume), based on a godless world?
I know how I come up with my moral judgments, and have not been shy about saying so: but it seems quite obvious that nothing in your own worldview justifies you calling anybody, doing anything, "wrong" in the objective sense that you are attempting to invoke here.
And if all you mean is, "Harbal finds it wrong for him," then you can't possibly also be expecting me or anyone else to think you're right when you say it. Why should we?
Then in what sense can you call your outlook objectively "moral"? Or do you only mean, "Harbal knows what he likes, and nobody else needs to agree?"Well I, too, have a moral outlook, but mine has nothing to do with God.
This goes back to your former incoherent position about morality all being subjective. If all morality is merely subjective, then how is Harbal expecting anybody else to be obligated -- or even inclined or persuaded -- to accept his subjective value judgment of "wrongness"?
You see? It just doesn't make any sense for you to express moral outrage or objection, or to call anything "wrong," unless you have some justification for why somebody else OUGHT to agree with that assessment. And you don't. You've previously admitted you don't. You've made all moralizing out to be purely subjective; and that means, that nobody else -- and, in fact, not even you, yourself -- has even a slight duty to share that position.