otseng wrote: ↑Wed Dec 13, 2023 8:00 am
Even this statement makes no sense. When you say "death penalty", that means the person has been judged guilty of a crime and the punishment is death. Can you give any example of any non-moral agent being judged for a crime?
What I believe you are getting at is killing a non-moral agent, not punishing a non-moral agent.
You are the one not making any sense sir.
Yahweh, the perfect being punished the Amalek, the moral agents together with the non-moral agents for attacking the Israelites.
Yahweh, the perfect being punished the whole humanity the moral agents together with the non-moral agents in the Noah story.
Yahweh, the perfect being punished the people of Samaria, the moral agents together with the non-moral agents.
And so on.
"16 However, in the cities of the nations the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes. 17 Completely destroy[a] them—the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites—as the Lord your God has commanded you. 18 Otherwise, they will teach you to follow all the detestable things they do in worshiping their gods, and you will sin against the Lord your God." (Deuteronomy 20:16-18)
"Now go, attack the Amalekites. Destroy everything that belongs to them as an offering to the Lord. Don’t let anything live. Put to death men and women, children and small babies. Kill the cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.’”(1 Samuel 15:3)
“13 So God said to Noah, “I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth. 14 So make yourself an ark of cypress[a] wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out. 15 This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits high.16 Make a roof for it, leaving below the roof an opening one cubit[c] high all around.[d] Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle and upper decks. 17 I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish.”(Genesis 6:13-17)
“The people of Samaria must bear their guilt,
because they have rebelled against their God.
They will fall by the sword;
their little ones will be dashed to the ground,
their pregnant women ripped open.”[a]”(Hosea 13:16)
otseng wrote: ↑Wed Dec 13, 2023 8:00 am
Eating meat requires killing. And you even stated this is a "necessary evil".
There is a difference between surviving(hunter gatherers 100 000 years ago) and stuffing yourself, being obese and factory farming in 2023.
otseng wrote: ↑Wed Dec 13, 2023 8:00 am
Because these are not relevant to the discussion. The problem of evil can be covered as a separate topic later. What we are discussing is the charge that God commits evil.
As for God being omnipotent, I've already pointed out this has been debated in Is the Christian God omnipotent?
The problem is there is no clear definition of what "omnipotent" means. Skeptics typically use the term in order to create an imaginary straw man god. All I'm saying is we should drop the term and use Biblical language instead.
Comedy.
The Bible clearly says God can "do all things", has "perfect knowledge", is "perfect", "just", "does no wrong", "righteous", "in him there is no darkness at all", “is love”.
"26 Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but
with God all things are possible.”"
"42 Then Job replied to the Lord:
2 “I know that
you can do all things;
no purpose of yours can be thwarted."
"27 “I am the Lord, the God of all mankind.
Is anything too hard for me?"
(Matthew 19:26, Job 42:1-2, Luke 1:37, Jeremiah 32:27)
“5 Great is our Lord and mighty in power;
his understanding has no limit.”
“
Before a word is on my tongue
you,
Lord, know it completely.”
“13 Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight. Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give account.”
“20 If our hearts condemn us, we know that God is greater than our hearts, and
he knows everything.”
“16 Do you know how the clouds hang poised,
those wonders of him who
has perfect knowledge?”
(Psalm 147:5, Psalm 139:4, Hebrews 4:13, 1 John 3:20, Job 37:16)
“He is the Rock,
his works are perfect,
and
all his ways are just.
A faithful God
who does no wrong,
upright and just is he.”
“31 “As for God,
his way is perfect:
The Lord’s
word is flawless;
he shields all who take refuge in him.”
“48 Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly
Father is perfect.”
“For the Lord is good and
his love endures forever;
his faithfulness continues through all generations.”
“17 The Lord is
righteous in all his ways
and faithful in all he does.”
“16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.
God is love. “
“5 This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him
there is no darkness at all.”
“8 But God demonstrates
his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”
"8 Whoever does not love does not know God,
because God is love."
(Deuteronomy 32:4, 2 Samuel 22:31, Matthew 5:48, Psalm 100:5, Psalm 145:17, 1 John 4:16, 1 John 1:5, Heb. 6:18, Romans 5:8, 1 John 4:8)
otseng wrote: ↑Wed Dec 13, 2023 8:00 am
If you cannot provide a rational justification of objective morality, then the entire charge can be dismissed. Why should anyone care about your opinion of how God should act if there is no objective oughtness to it?
I am not saying how God should act sir. God could be malevolent or indifferent.
I am saying if god is portrait like like Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Pol Pot, Nero, Genghis Khan, Darth Sidious, Friez why trust and worship, adore such a being?
otseng wrote: ↑Wed Dec 13, 2023 8:00 am
This is why I brought up the case of abortions. Though the general case of abortions is morally wrong, there are exceptions. And in the case of eating meat, you even stated it's a necessary evil. So, the point is there can be higher principles that can override in a particular situation.
The idea of omnipotence carries the idea that everything God does must be "perfect". But I don't think that's possible in our reality. If a pregnant woman is in jeopardy of her life carrying the baby, there is no win-win solution. It's either the woman must die or the baby must die. Or even now in the case of the war between Israel and Hamas, there is no way for Israel to engage in war without affecting civilians. The skeptic then claims, "If God is omnipotent, he can do anything, so there must be a way to save the baby and the mother and also be able to help Israel kill Hamas without killing any innocent lives." The problem with these is it's imagining this ideal hypothetical scenario that is not realistic.
Again there is a difference between surviving(hunter gatherers 100 000 years ago) and stuffing yourself, being obese and factory farming(kill billions of non-human animals) in 2023.
It is wrong to kill countless fully formed fetuses(non-moral agents).
God does not need to survive and is not a very limited being like humans. The comparisons are ridiculous.
God is perfect, has perfect knowledge and practically omnipotent(logically), creates realities and universe/omniverses though words alone.
Also one does not need omnipotence to not punish the moral agents (adults) together with the non-moral agents(babies, non-human animals, the severely mentally impaired from birth) in the process of which the being its inflicting great suffering; punishing some for the misdeeds of others, asking for genocides, being homophobic.
The contradictions are still there sir.
otseng wrote: ↑Wed Dec 13, 2023 8:00 am
It might be your logic, but there is no requirement everybody needs to abide by your logic. Why should a dictator abide by your Affective Empathy? And if one believes in natural selection, it's entirely consistent with natural selection to promote one's own reproduction and prevent another's.
You claiming it extends to the entire universe does not also justify it. Yes, intuitively, I agree the innocent should not be killed. But it is not logic that dictates this, but our moral sense.
Logic rest on the logical absolutes.
Comedy.
Punishing the innocent is illogical because punishing means
"to cause someone who has done something wrong or committed a crime to suffer". And innocent means not guilty of a crime or offence.
You are both saying someone X
"who has done something wrong or committed a crime " and the same X is
"not guilty of a crime or offence".
Breaking the law of non-contradiction. The law of non-contradiction I would say applies to aliens on the other side of the galaxy.
otseng wrote: ↑Wed Dec 13, 2023 8:00 am
Why should a dictator abide by your Affective Empathy? And if one believes in natural selection, it's entirely consistent with natural selection to promote one's own reproduction and prevent another's.
The morality derived from the Affective Empathy coincidently offers the same result as careful philosophical and logical analysis. Punishing the innocent(non-moral agents) and beings that do not have free will is illogical and wrong.
Because truth is important.
Psychopaths and morons can say all they want things that are illogical, wrong or moronic.
Reality is not on their side.
I could say the sun is green. Does not mean I am right.
Saying so does not make it so.
One needs to show the truth.
otseng wrote: ↑Wed Dec 13, 2023 8:00 am
A subjective morality is a morality that would only apply to a certain group of people at a certain time. An objective morality would apply to all people for all time. Since God created all people and He is the source of morality, that morality would apply to all people for all time.
I said:
“One says: "X is wrong because I say so".
Another one says: "X is wrong no matter what anybody says about X".
Please answer:
Q: If I said "X is wrong" because I said so would it be subjective morality or objective morality?
Q: Is saying "X is wrong no matter what anybody says about X" subjective morality or objective morality?”
You said:
“The first is subjective, the second is objective.”
I said: “So according to your logic if a supposed god says X is wrong because the being says so that is subiective morality.”
You said that when a being says X is wrong because the being said so it is subjective morality.
But when it comes to being X being God is not subjective morality.
Comedy continues.
otseng wrote: ↑Wed Dec 13, 2023 8:00 am
From Morality and Evolutionary Biology:
otseng wrote: ↑Tue Nov 28, 2023 6:40 am
As for normative morality, evolutionary theory is lacking for an explanation:
Even philosophers sympathetic to ethical naturalism (the view that moral facts are themselves natural facts of some sort) have typically been wary of attempts to derive conclusions about morality in the normative sense from facts about evolutionary history. This is especially so when they are clear (unlike Spencer) about the principles governing Darwinian evolution through natural selection. From the fact that a certain trait is an adaptation, which evolved through natural selection by virtue of its positive feedback effects on germ-line replication of the alleles that generate the trait, nothing at all seems to follow about whether it is morally good or right, or something we ought to embrace and foster. Certain dispositions may be present in us for good evolutionary reasons without any implication that these traits benefit us, or are moral virtues or produce behaviors that are morally right.
It is hard to see how such evolutionary facts can possibly have normative authority or force for a rational agent.
This suggests that ethics, like mathematics, is an autonomous subject in the sense that it has its own “internal standards of justification and criticism”, such that its conclusions cannot be justified by other forms of inquiry such as evolutionary biology.
Normative ethical conclusions are justified through first-order ethical reflection and argument, just as mathematical propositions are justified through mathematical reasoning, rather than through learning more about our evolutionary past or about what is happening in our brains when we engage in these forms of reasoning.
From Evolutionary Ethics:
otseng wrote: ↑Fri Dec 01, 2023 5:01 am
As the article admits, "evolutionary ethics still has a long way to go."
Evolutionary ethics is, on a philosopher’s time-scale, a very new approach to ethics. Though interdisciplinary approaches between scientists and philosophers have the potential to generate important new ideas, evolutionary ethics still has a long way to go.
From The Origins of Human Morality:
otseng wrote: ↑Thu Nov 30, 2023 6:25 am
There have been two common responses - altruism and reciprocity:
There have traditionally been two answers to such questions. First, it makes sense for individuals to help their kin, with whom they share genes, a process known as inclusive fitness. Second, situations of reciprocity can arise in which I scratch your back and you scratch mine and we both benefit in the long run.
He admits neither of these explanations are tenable:
Moreover, neither of these traditional explanations gets at what is arguably the essence of human morality—the sense of obligation that human beings feel toward one another.
Can you summarize this in few sentences. Why do you think it debunks the idea that morality evolved.
Also provide the links for your outsourced text please.
That is the proper thing to do.
To eliminate any suspicions of possible quote mining events and misunderstandings cause dishonesty and stupidity is a thing.