You know very little.That makes sense for an atheist to say
The great atheist thinkers from Freud to Satre to Nietchze believed in a kind of moral relativism, or that Christian ethics were a slave morality.
You know very little.That makes sense for an atheist to say
The great atheist thinkers from Freud to Satre to Nietchze believed in a kind of moral relativism, or that Christian ethics were a slave morality.
You really are stupid.If you take Nietchze, Sartre, or Freud at their word, there is no absolute right and wrong.
In that sense, what Hume wrote as a diehard atheist made some sense to me.
"Nietzsche"I understand that according to the relativist there is no absolute but even within their own relativist bubble they personally have right and wrong actions.
It’s relative at the population level. But presumably even Neitzsche thought he should take one action over another in a given situation.
"Nietzsche"
I do not have your God dictating to me how I should act.Apologies. I'm never good at typing out his name. I just start hitting the "Z", "C", "S" and "H" keys in random order and hope for the best! LOL.
So I'm still curious about your ethical system that has no "moral edicts". Do you have actions that are "correct" and "incorrect" in that sort of system?
I do not have your God dictating to me how I should act.
I am not seeing a problem.Nor did I say you did. I simply asked about YOUR ethical system.
Is there "correct" and 'incorrect" actions or do you simply decree that whatever action you take is by definition "correct"?
I'm genuinely interested in your ethical system.
I am not seeing a problem.
I help those who I need to help.OK, let me try to explain better:
When you are faced with a choice, like helping someone or not helping them and they are in need. Is there an action that is MORE correct in that situation?
Let us take it one step further:
If someone reaches out to you in kindness is it "correct" to slap their hand away?
Maybe I should ask one clarifying question: do you believe in "free will"? That will definitely have an impact on your response.
I help those who I need to help.
I believe in free will. Yet I think it is mostly a meaningless concept.
Yes.Are you always right in deciding whom you need to help?
Yes.
Ethics is empirical. Christians hate that.Thanks!
I will admit I'm kind of jealous of someone who has NO self-doubt and cannot conceive of making the wrong choice. In some respects that sounds almost unbelievable but it highlights how differently people can perceive reality.
However, my one minor critique of a moral system in which whatever the person chooses to do is "ipso facto" correct it could sound a bit solipsistic. It wouldn't work for me, personally, because I can conceive that in the wrong hands it could lead someone to doing truly appalling things but calling them "good".
Ethics is empirical. Christians hate that.
God tells you how to act?I don't see that in the ethics you just said you have. You have described an ethics in which the only measure of good or bad is literally whatever you choose to do and that is the "good".
God tells you how to act?
Sounds utilitarian.No, not at all. I'm not a Christian. Not sure I mentioned that before.
My morality is based on what helps provide a safe and stable social network. I'm pretty basic....more along the lines of what others have been talking about here. That many of our senses of what is the right and wrong action to take in a given situation is based on instincts built into us as animals. These actions in a social group like we live in tend to confer an advantage to us as a species.
So my morality is not based on any sort of supernatural thinking or feeling. It is based on what helps confer a biological advantage to us as a species. It IS relative in that it is relative to US.
Sounds utilitarian.
Yeah, the Trolley Problem is stupid.Yeah, I suppose it is. It DEFINITELY biases a choice of action toward the largest positive impact from the action.
It's not fun facing the Trolley Problem, but overall and in the fullness of time it seems to generally work out for the species.
Yeah, the Trolley Problem is stupid.