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Simon, you’ve given examples of broad and general. Are you in favor of an absolutist approach to morality?

Furthermore adaptation enhances integration without meditation. Children? Maybe we will have the AI to abort future psychopaths. Or we can use nanobots to alter the amygdala to create a better more cooperative kid. Or propsective parents are…[Read more]

Unseen, you wrote:

And yet, this is the closest thing to morality we have since a morality based on actual absolutes is precluded from our scientific understanding of the world. Otherwise, moral absolutes would be up there with the physical laws of the universe, which would make them testable, for example which, clearly, they are not.

If you…[Read more]

I think in many cases confusion arises due to a failure to define terms.

Define and illustrate your viewpoint rather than give a viewpoint that tends towards polarization and obfuscation.

I reject moral relativism. That does not lead me to absolutism. In fact morality does not lend itself to that treatment. Life is F’d up and filled with…[Read more]

Tumble, tumble
Little world
How i wondered
what you were
Now, i tumble too
And do you wonder?

https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/reality-objective-exist/

Marionettes pulling our strings…the universe things on strings…attached to angels on wings

I wonder whether the word REALITY is a construct.

The hubris in claiming knowledge and particularly in positing our central place in the universe. Discoveries are taking us more and more into Alice in Wonderland.

https://bigthink.com/hard-science/large-scale-structures/

Reg, i am sure many theists would disagree about whether anybody reasons themselves into believing.

Given a will to believe reasoning is impaired. It is like driving drunk. I grew up in home with nothing but atheism. Was instructed to question shit. So i questioned the absence of belief and read some of the noted apologists and theologians.…[Read more]

Unseen, you are correct there is no explicit right to privacy in the US constitution. It was a bit of judicial activism in Griswold v. Connecticut in which privacy was discovered in the penumbras (learned that word in law school reading the above case) of the bill of rights.

As to the broad and reasonable expectations that we oughtn’t stow Rowe…[Read more]

Objective standards? Objectivity is a funny word and a slippery one at that.
When the putative objectivity is dependent on the off chance that the theist has landed correctly only one landing can be into the slot of objectivity. Monarchs in the middle ages exploited the notion of divine right monarchy. No questioning the emissary of God and a…[Read more]

Simon, if the alternative to using our judgment is by fiat then morality is arbitrary. Craig wants to impose his arbitrary morality on all of us. You may perceive discrimination and judgment in certain instances. It is virtually impossible to avoid those human tendencies.

But that misses the point. Those assholes get all fire and brimstone…[Read more]

William Lane Craig? Professional charlatan. Professional sophist.

Morals are absolute. You atheists mofos are dangerous cuz your morals do not come from on high. You v. God the lawgiver. Goddamn blashpheming heathen ought to burn in hell for all eternity. Now get on your knees bitch and take that Jesus cookie. I give you absolute Jesus cookies…[Read more]