- 17 Mar 2021 06:55
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As far as I can tell, it does not matter at all if something is inherently wrong or not. Your god has a proper way of raping slaves. Is that inherently right because it is in your bible?
Morality does not need to deal in things that are inherently good or bad. I understand that we all want things to be inherently good or bad. I want to think that racism and rape has always been wrong, but even a cursory understanding of history shows that racism and rape were actually considered good things for most of human history.
There is a crack in everything,
That's how the light gets in...
Verv wrote:You have another smuggled in assumption: that I am supposed to care that someone else is dead.
You can put on an exploded cigar face and say of course you must!, but, historically, people did not feel the need to ever care this way about outsiders, and indeed, delighted in the deaths of their enemies, and praised those who brought their enemies to their knees.
This works as an intrasocietal principle, but even then, to a degree: who is to say that it is not sweet & proper for a Samurai to cut an eta in two for an arbitrary reason? Who is to say that it is not the right of an owner to take full control of the slave he bought at the market? His societal laws at that time may fully say he has a right to take her as he pleases.
What is in nature to say any of these things are inherently wrong?
As far as I can tell, it does not matter at all if something is inherently wrong or not. Your god has a proper way of raping slaves. Is that inherently right because it is in your bible?
Morality does not need to deal in things that are inherently good or bad. I understand that we all want things to be inherently good or bad. I want to think that racism and rape has always been wrong, but even a cursory understanding of history shows that racism and rape were actually considered good things for most of human history.
There is a crack in everything,
That's how the light gets in...