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Are acts wrong in themselves? Or does it depend on the context?
Is it wrong to rape and murder a child?
It is a universally accepted truth that doing such an act is wrong.
Some acts, like sexual assault, are always wrong.Are acts wrong in themselves? Or does it depend on the context?
God murdered children when he order a few genocides and dashed skulks and great floods etc.Is it wrong to rape and murder a child?
It is a universally accepted truth that doing such an act is wrong.
Some acts, like sexual assault, are always wrong.
Others, like lying, stealing & killing, can be context-specific, but are generally wrong.
Right vs. wrong is not the basis for entry into Heaven, though.
Washed vs. unwashed is.
Who provided those people with life?God murdered children when he order a few genocides and dashed skulks and great floods etc.
Irrelevant. My wife and I provided my son with life. I don’t get kill him and claim an objective moral right by doing so.Who provided those people with life?
What about if we used the other example, rape. A predator sexually penetrating an innocent and helpless child. Is that wrong? Or does it depend? @Larnievc I'd like to hear what you have to say on this too.If I may take one of those acts - murder. It is very specifically defined. That is, taking another life is wrong only under certain conditions. It's relative by definition.
I’d say so. But we all know that there are people in the world who disagree.What about if we used the other example, rape. A predator sexually penetrating an innocent and helpless child. Is that wrong? Or does it depend? @Larnievc I'd like to hear what you have to say on this too.
you have the power to provide life?Irrelevant. My wife and I provided my son with life. I don’t get kill him and claim an objective moral right by doing so.
For an atheist, the above is cognitively dissonant.God murdered children when he order a few genocides and dashed skulks and great floods etc.
Good. That's cognitively harmonic.My wife and I provided my son with life. I don’t get kill him and claim an objective moral right by doing so.
Did you know that we really haven't landed on the moon?I’d say so. But we all know that there are people in the world who disagree.
Are acts wrong in themselves? Or does it depend on the context?
Of course. I built up the various molecules in my testicles to provide the sperm that delivered my genetic material to the ova my wife built up in her ovaries.you have the power to provide life?
Are acts wrong in themselves? Or does it depend on the context?
Its all in the eye of the beholder.Are acts wrong in themselves? Or does it depend on the context?
God is not us. Wrong is crime against God. He doesn't operate against himself.God murdered children when he order a few genocides and dashed skulks and great floods etc.
I can specifically define 'taking another life', too. Shooting a gun, or making a stabbing motion into with a knife is only wrong under certain conditions, too. Picking up a gun or knife is only wrong under certain conditions.If I may take one of those acts - murder. It is very specifically defined. That is, taking another life is wrong only under certain conditions. It's relative by definition.