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Thats a logical fallacy. You saying that morality is not objective simply because people debate morality. It doesn't follow.Yes, morality is debated.
This strongly suggests thats its not objective.
I never claimed God is whatever thing that any person thinks is most real. I claimed the term God must imply the source of the energy that formed all things. Otherwise it's a god, a false imagery of Thee God. I then claimed that there are differing imageries of God/gods imagined by people, which is why there are different religions, including atheism, the counter narrative.It seems youve done the opposite. You claimed God is whatever thing that any person thinks is most real.
I don't know exactly what you mean by "there is just indeterminate fluff". But I would venture to guess that you may be referring to false images of God.That there is just indeterminate fluff and the furthest thing from the God of the Bible.
Yes just like "If moral realism is true then any statement of the form "People should..." is true. Or at least sometimes true.Okay, now put it all together:
If moral non-realism is true, then any statement of the form "People should..." is not true. This conclusion is also correct. Agreed?
In scripture, positive prejudice is moral and negative prejudice is immoral. The pure of heart therefore project their purity onto others and it's called Grace. The defiled project their corruption onto others and it's called wickedness. Obviously, you understand this.Yes just like "If moral realism is true then any statement of the form "People should..." is true. Or at least sometimes true.
If moral non-realism is true, then any statement of the form "People should..." is not true.
We're talking about a statement where moral non-realism is assumed to be true within the confines of that statement. You're trying to prove moral realism. Your comments do not follow.It does follow in that eating ones children is not a Maternal instinct. Maternal instinct exists objectively as moral.
If I don't assume that you personally are telling me the truth, then I don't know the definition of the word "lie"? That's nonsense.Because according to such a reasoning you would not know what a lie is.
It's a semantical construct that changes positives into negatives or visa versa. "If moral non-realism is true, then people should eat their children". This is a true statement because it supposes that Maternal instinct should have no meaning if what was morally true was false. I added a negative to a negative and made the statement a positive through supposition. That's how propaganda is formed.We're talking about a statement where moral non-realism is assumed to be true within the confines of that statement. You're trying to prove moral realism. Your comments do not follow.
I'm the believer not the unbeliever in God's Word. I asked how I could believe a person that doesn't believe in honesty as a virtue. Not believe, that's a negative about a positive, a virtue. Then you asked me how could you believe me. I said because I hold honesty in my heart to be a virtue (not dishonesty as a virtue). Then, you said how do I know you're not lying about that. I then said because you don't know what a lie is because it's a lie that dishonesty is a virtue.If I don't assume that you personally are telling me the truth, then I don't know the definition of the word "lie"? That's nonsense.
Wrong.It's a semantical construct that changes positives into negatives or visa versa. "If moral non-realism is true, then people should eat their children". This is a true statement because it supposes that Maternal instinct should have no meaning if what was morally true was false.
Yes, that's the nonsense bit. I know the definition of the word "lie" and that has nothing to do with whether you are or are not a liar.I then said because you don't know what a lie is because it's a lie that dishonesty is a virtue.
First under the science method things are accepted as objective without clear evdience or having a clear and precise way to explain it. The Big Bang is an example.
Second as I have demonstrated objective morality is clear and precise. "Rape is wrong" is a clear moral statement. It states that "rape" is either right or wrong to do. Its a clear and precise choise. Even if we applied the way some of the so called objective facts of science are accepted then moral statements like this are far more clear and precise say compared to the "Big Bang theory".
Well from what you are saying then yes. They are presented as facts. I am not sure what you mean by "indisputable fact". A fact is a fact so a "Fact" is regarded as indisputable.
No its actually "Science". The disputes about the so called fact of the Big Bang is scientifically based so therefore its a "fact" that the so called fact of the Big Bang are under dispute and theerfore the Big Bang is not really a fact after all. The same with evolution. The so called claim that evolution is a fact is being disputed by science and not personal opinion.
Maybe it was your insistence of proving objective morality by the science method that gave me that impression. That you were a materialist and that there were no non-material facts/truth.
OK so you acknowledge that there can be non-material facts/truths. If thats the case then you cannot just dismiss objective morality because it doesn't fit methological naturalism. Therefore you need to be open to other ways of deetrmining truth/facts about reality.
You have misunderstood moral language then. Its the fact that moral language demands an objective answer that destinguishes it from other descriptive statements. Your example demands an objective answer "the death penalty"is either right or wrong to do and each option is an objective determination. There is no room for relative/subjective views. Either one side is right and one side is wrong.
That is why I said that relative morality is impossible to impliment as a system. Because if we follow it through to its logical conclusion then there are no longer a "right or wrong" moral position to take but rather it opens the door for there to be many truths about human behaviour. That undermines being able to take a position that an act is either "right or wrong". We have to accept that there is no objective deetrmination and all views are equally relevant within that system.
The moment one culture claims that an act is wrong not only for themselves but for other cultures as has been happening then that culture is claiming that there is only an objective determination to be made and that is the determination they have made. All other cultures are wrong. Yet the culture that is said to be wrong will also claim that their moral view is right not just for them but for all cultures.
We end up with a messy and complicated system and no way of really claiming that an act is really right or wrong in a universal or truthful way in the overall scheme of things.
I appreciate what you're saying about this statement. However, this is not the statement I said. I used only the first half. I didn't argue against it, I made a semantical construct out of it to indicate that if there were no morality then there would be no maternal instinct in reality.Wrong.
1) If moral non-realism is true, then there are no moral statements that are true, so...
Instead of "you don't know what a lie is", I should have said, "You should know I'm saying the truth when I say that honesty is a moral virtue, because it's a quality that is admired by a good people". I wasn't defending my opinion; I was defending the objective Truth.Yes, that's the nonsense bit. I know the definition of the word "lie" and that has nothing to do with whether you are or are not a liar.
Yet I already knew this. As I explained I wasn't talking about a moral action. I was talking about the moral system ie "If moral non-realism is true then people "should" be acting like there are no moral truths".. Its a contingent claim and not a moral claim. Just like if people support Liberals the they "should" be acting like Liberals and not Democrats.Great! Now pay close attention to the new placement of the quotation marks. So we know that any statement of the form "If moral non-realism is true, then people should..." is always false.
What comes after the "then" will always be false, but the statement claims it is true, so the whole statement is false. Always.
Can you reword these statements for me without using "should" or "ought" so that I can better understand your meaning?Yet I already knew this. As I explained I wasn't talking about a moral action. I was talking about the moral system ie "If moral non-realism is true then people "should" be acting like there are no moral truths".. Its a contingent claim and not a moral claim. Just like if people support Liberals the they "should" be acting like Liberals and not Democrats.
You used the first part, "If moral non-realism is true" and then you made a moral statement, "then people should eat their children". If moral non-realism is true then that statement is false because all moral statements are false. Your claim, "If moral non-realism is true then people should eat their children" is false.I appreciate what you're saying about this statement. However, this is not the statement I said. I used only the first half. I didn't argue against it, I made a semantical construct out of it to indicate that if there were no morality then there would be no maternal instinct in reality.
When people lie, they claim to value the truth. They aren't going to tell you they're lying, now are they?Instead of "you don't know what a lie is", I should have said, "You should know I'm saying the truth when I say that honesty is a moral virtue, because it's a quality that is admired by a good people".
I am saying the evidence some scientists think confirms the Big Bang doesnt confirm the Big Bang and in fact the evidence contradicts it happening.Are you seriously suggesting that there is no clear evidence for the Big Bang and that there is no way to clearly and precisely describe it?
Thats a given, I could ask why do we treat rape as a crime. Why is it condemned by the UN Human Rights and most countries in the world. Why do we say to those cultures that think rape is OK that they are wrong as crimes against humanity. Its obvious "rape" harms humans and denies and disrespects "Life" as being intrinsically valuable.Okay then, tell me this... WHY is rape wrong?
Its all about the evidence fitting the observations and because current theories are not doing that alternative ideas are presented some of which fit the evdience better and yet scientists choose to stick with the current ideas because they think that this is fact. Like the CBMR is suppose to prove the Big Bang but it doesn't.So you are telling me that the ideas presented to explain away issues in these fields are just being presented as facts.
Many scientists think its the best theory to address the many anonomalies in cosmology. The point here is that by scientists coming up with these ideas they are more or less saying the current ideas are not good enough to explain things.String theory, for example? Is that being presented as a fact?
Well yes once again ideas like Evolution,Can you tell me ANYTHING that is being presented as a fact without having the evidence to support it being factual?
I have been telling you that since we started debating. Remember the Flat earth example. Despite the earth being a sphere some subjectively think its flat. My point back then was just because people may have subjective views doesn't mean there is no facts about the physical world. Just like if people have subjetcive views about morality doesn't mean there are no moral truths.You do realise that people can have subjective opinions about scientific facts, right?
Then I was correct. You think that the only reality is material reality. But you just acknowledged that there can be non-material and verifiable facts/truths with ideas like colours, Math, beauty, happiness, ect.No, I just have the position that the scientific method is the only way we have to find things that are factual.
It sounds like your still taking the materialist position and that at the end of the day only the scientific method can verify something. Yet it is widely acknowledged that science cannot answer questions like morality. So the alternative way to support morality is not through science.I will be happy to accept any method of determining objective truths about reality - once that method has proven itself to be reliable. But this can not be shown unless we have some of checking the results. I could, after all claim that trees are insects that are made out of liquid, and present a method which confirms that result. You, of course, would say that my conclusion is wrong, but the only way you could do that is to show that a different method gives a different result. If my method was the only way of studying trees, then you would not be able to disagree, since you would have no method which could disagree.
Likewise, we need to use more than one method to study morality. You have presented a method, but that method must be checked against another method in order to determine how accurate it is. So far, the only other method I have seen is the scientific method, and that does not agree with your claims.
It doesn't matter because either answer is an objective determination. Thats the nature of morality, its either "right or wrong" and doesn't have room for subjective views. Whether a culture says its right or wrong, they are not going to make that determination on a whim. They will have used some objective basis for their determination.And which side is right and which side is wrong?
See you keep reverting back to subjective thinking when I clearly explained that preferences, feelings and opinions of the subject are descriptive and not normative like morality. You cannot be wrong for liking a TV show but you can be wrong for raping someone under a normative system.And where's the problem there? We already have that with what movies we like.
But how do you know this. You are once again appealing to something that you say has no evidence to support it. You are doing the exact same thing you accuse me of doing when trying to support objective morals.Yes, that's what happens when people act like their subjective opinion is an objective fact. I've said this many times.
And as you ask me what evidence do you have for this. You have just made a truth claim. See how it works both ways. It seems to me that people cannot help but make morality a case of being objective by the way they act. You may say that what people express is not really how things are but that also undermines any claims you make about morality as well.And the problem is that you are assuming that that there actually is a universal right or wrong. There is not.
Why when "should" is a commonly used word that doesnt always have moral meaning. But neverthelessCan you reword these statements for me without using "should" or "ought" so that I can better understand your meaning?
Nope, I was right to begin with. Any statement of the form "People ought to X" is a moral statement, just like we agreed:You could also say "if you want to get healthy then you "ought" to eat well and exercise. When its goal directed we can use "should" or "ought" in relation to that goal.
"People should..." is a moral statement.
The ... is there so that you can fill in whatever you want. "People should love one another" "People should not murder". For whatever act you put in place of the ... that statement is a moral statement. True or false?
True
I am saying the evidence some scientists think confirms the Big Bang doesnt confirm the Big Bang and in fact the evidence contradicts it happening.
The Scientific Evidence Against the Big Bang
Despite the continuing popularity of the theory, essentially every prediction of the Big Bang theory has been increasingly contradicted by better and better data, as shown by many teams of researchers.
The Scientific Evidence Against the Big Bang
The Big Bang Never Happened: A Conclusive Argument
This paper provides both logical proof and corroborating scientific evidence that the universe could not have begun from a singularity
The Big Bang Never Happened: A Conclusive Argument
Thats a given, I could ask why do we treat rape as a crime. Why is it condemned by the UN Human Rights and most countries in the world. Why do we say to those cultures that think rape is OK that they are wrong as crimes against humanity. Its obvious "rape" harms humans and denies and disrespects "Life" as being intrinsically valuable.
Its all about the evidence fitting the observations and because current theories are not doing that alternative ideas are presented some of which fit the evdience better and yet scientists choose to stick with the current ideas because they think that this is fact. Like the CBMR is suppose to prove the Big Bang but it doesn't.
Many scientists think its the best theory to address the many anonomalies in cosmology. The point here is that by scientists coming up with these ideas they are more or less saying the current ideas are not good enough to explain things.
Well yes once again ideas like Evolution,
Ernst Mayr observed, "The basic theory of evolution has been confirmed so completely that most modern biologists consider evolution simply a fact.
Similarly, biologist Richard Lenski says, "Scientific understanding requires both facts and theories that can explain those facts in a coherent manner. Evolution, in this context, is both a fact and a theory.
Evolution as fact and theory - Wikipedia
Yet evolution is being disputed as fact.
Does evolutionary theory need a rethink?
Does evolutionary theory need a rethink? | Nature
I have been telling you that since we started debating. Remember the Flat earth example. Despite the earth being a sphere some subjectively think its flat. My point back then was just because people may have subjective views doesn't mean there is no facts about the physical world. Just like if people have subjetcive views about morality doesn't mean there are no moral truths.
You have continually used the fact that morality is not objective but rather relative/subjective because people disagree about morality. You also claimed that science is clear and concise and yet we find with many ideas its not and there is much disagreement even when there are obvious physical support.
So therefore morality can act the same where people agree about obvious moral truths like "don't murder and rape" but may argue and disagree about more complicated moral issues like in science.
Then I was correct. You think that the only reality is material reality. But you just acknowledged that there can be non-material and verifiable facts/truths with ideas like colours, Math, beauty, happiness, ect.
It sounds like your still taking the materialist position and that at the end of the day only the scientific method can verify something. Yet it is widely acknowledged that science cannot answer questions like morality. So the alternative way to support morality is not through science.
That is why I have been pointing out that human experience, assumptions justified by proper beliefs and rationality are how we determine morality. We use this same method for other non-physical facts/truths like in Math, and psychology for example but also in everyday life in how we experience colours, beauty ect are real entities. But even some aspects of science are not verifiable and yet we still accept them.
It doesn't matter because either answer is an objective determination. Thats the nature of morality, its either "right or wrong" and doesn't have room for subjective views. Whether a culture says its right or wrong, they are not going to make that determination on a whim. They will have used some objective basis for their determination.
If they happen to conflict and disagree then someone is right and someone is wrong. It doesn't matter who is truely right because either way its objective. We may not be able to work out who is right and who is wrong for some issues. But that doesn't negate that an objective determination is needed.
See you keep reverting back to subjective thinking when I clearly explained that preferences, feelings and opinions of the subject are descriptive and not normative like morality. You cannot be wrong for liking a TV show but you can be wrong for raping someone under a normative system.
But how do you know this. You are once again appealing to something that you say has no evidence to support it. You are doing the exact same thing you accuse me of doing when trying to support objective morals.
If there was really only subjective morality then first we could say that evryone is acting in contradiction to the subjective system. That in itself is a poor reflection on subjective morlaity. Second as I have said many times now "people don't just act like morality is objective they make it a reality in this world. If morality can only be determined by what we assume and justifiably believe then acting like morality is objective is how morality really is.
Third if people express morals as being a case of getting at something true in the world then it follows that sometimes these expressions are actually true.
And as you ask me what evidence do you have for this. You have just made a truth claim. See how it works both ways. It seems to me that people cannot help but make morality a case of being objective by the way they act. You may say that what people express is not really how things are but that also undermines any claims you make about morality as well.
If there are no moral absolutes then why does the UN impose moral absolutes in their Human Rights. Why do some cultures condemn other cultures that their moral view is wrong when there is no absolutes. Claiming that another culture is wrong implies that there must be some moral truth that applies to all cultures.
They not only condemn other cultures but take action with things like sanctions and appeals to UN as crimes against humanity. If thats the case then they are acting in contradiction to relative morality which means that each culture is not wrong in any universal way.
I am saying the evidence some scientists think confirms the Big Bang doesnt confirm the Big Bang and in fact the evidence contradicts it happening.
The Scientific Evidence Against the Big Bang
Despite the continuing popularity of the theory, essentially every prediction of the Big Bang theory has been increasingly contradicted by better and better data, as shown by many teams of researchers.
The Scientific Evidence Against the Big Bang
The Big Bang Never Happened: A Conclusive Argument
This paper provides both logical proof and corroborating scientific evidence that the universe could not have begun from a singularity
The Big Bang Never Happened: A Conclusive Argument
Thats a given, I could ask why do we treat rape as a crime. Why is it condemned by the UN Human Rights and most countries in the world. Why do we say to those cultures that think rape is OK that they are wrong as crimes against humanity. Its obvious "rape" harms humans and denies and disrespects "Life" as being intrinsically valuable.
Its all about the evidence fitting the observations and because current theories are not doing that alternative ideas are presented some of which fit the evdience better and yet scientists choose to stick with the current ideas because they think that this is fact. Like the CBMR is suppose to prove the Big Bang but it doesn't.
Well yes once again ideas like Evolution,
Ernst Mayr observed, "The basic theory of evolution has been confirmed so completely that most modern biologists consider evolution simply a fact.
Similarly, biologist Richard Lenski says, "Scientific understanding requires both facts and theories that can explain those facts in a coherent manner. Evolution, in this context, is both a fact and a theory.
Evolution as fact and theory - Wikipedia
Yet evolution is being disputed as fact.
Does evolutionary theory need a rethink?
Does evolutionary theory need a rethink? | Nature
I have been telling you that since we started debating. Remember the Flat earth example. Despite the earth being a sphere some subjectively think its flat. My point back then was just because people may have subjective views doesn't mean there is no facts about the physical world. Just like if people have subjetcive views about morality doesn't mean there are no moral truths.
You have continually used the fact that morality is not objective but rather relative/subjective because people disagree about morality. You also claimed that science is clear and concise and yet we find with many ideas its not and there is much disagreement even when there are obvious physical support.
So therefore morality can act the same where people agree about obvious moral truths like "don't murder and rape" but may argue and disagree about more complicated moral issues like in science.
Then I was correct. You think that the only reality is material reality. But you just acknowledged that there can be non-material and verifiable facts/truths with ideas like colours, Math, beauty, happiness, ect.
It sounds like your still taking the materialist position and that at the end of the day only the scientific method can verify something. Yet it is widely acknowledged that science cannot answer questions like morality. So the alternative way to support morality is not through science.
That is why I have been pointing out that human experience, assumptions justified by proper beliefs and rationality are how we determine morality. We use this same method for other non-physical facts/truths like in Math, and psychology for example but also in everyday life in how we experience colours, beauty ect are real entities. But even some aspects of science are not verifiable and yet we still accept them.
It doesn't matter because either answer is an objective determination. Thats the nature of morality, its either "right or wrong" and doesn't have room for subjective views. Whether a culture says its right or wrong, they are not going to make that determination on a whim. They will have used some objective basis for their determination.
If they happen to conflict and disagree then someone is right and someone is wrong. It doesn't matter who is truely right because either way its objective. We may not be able to work out who is right and who is wrong for some issues. But that doesn't negate that an objective determination is needed.
See you keep reverting back to subjective thinking when I clearly explained that preferences, feelings and opinions of the subject are descriptive and not normative like morality. You cannot be wrong for liking a TV show but you can be wrong for raping someone under a normative system.
But how do you know this.
You are once again appealing to something that you say has no evidence to support it. You are doing the exact same thing you accuse me of doing when trying to support objective morals.
If there was really only subjective morality then first we could say that evryone is acting in contradiction to the subjective system. That in itself is a poor reflection on subjective morlaity.
Second as I have said many times now "people don't just act like morality is objective they make it a reality in this world. If morality can only be determined by what we assume and justifiably believe then acting like morality is objective is how morality really is.
Third if people express morals as being a case of getting at something true in the world then it follows that sometimes these expressions are actually true.
And as you ask me what evidence do you have for this. You have just made a truth claim. See how it works both ways.
It seems to me that people cannot help but make morality a case of being objective by the way they act. You may say that what people express is not really how things are but that also undermines any claims you make about morality as well.
If there are no moral absolutes then why does the UN impose moral absolutes in their Human Rights.
Why do some cultures condemn other cultures that their moral view is wrong when there is no absolutes.
Claiming that another culture is wrong implies that there must be some moral truth that applies to all cultures.
They not only condemn other cultures but take action with things like sanctions and appeals to UN as crimes against humanity. If thats the case then they are acting in contradiction to relative morality which means that each culture is not wrong in any universal way.
Like I said, if moral nonrealism is true, then Maternal instinct would not exist. That's what was meant. Respectfully, you don't get to decide what I mean.You used the first part, "If moral non-realism is true" and then you made a moral statement, "then people should eat their children". If moral non-realism is true then that statement is false because all moral statements are false. Your claim, "If moral non-realism is true then people should eat their children" is false.
I get that this is what you meant.When people lie, they claim to value the truth. They aren't going to tell you they're lying, now are they?
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