If we bomb a couple of cities and kill 200,000 people -- most of whom are women and children -- is that moral? Would it be better to kill the women and children or turn them into slaves? How about instead of making them slaves, we let them starve to death?
The answer you have given as to why slavery, murder, genocide etc is wrong is that man is genetically programmed to be good (or follow the code of his tribe which would lead to the question what if the tribe thinks murder, genocide and enslavement is good.) That's foolishness.
You can conclude that man is bad and is meant to do bad things, or that man in fallen which means that he does bad things but is meant to do good. One of the points exmarine has made is that many of God's commands are designed to mitigate the bad.
All the amendments allow for slavery, to the best of my knowledge, since they mostly don't address the question.
After you finally get around to reading the Bible in context, read the Constitution.
You are a moral midget. We did bomb Hiroshima and it was moral. It saved 1 million lives. And bombing Mecca would save millions more.
I can manage to stomach it, if necessity calls for it, however, unlike some people in this discussion, I am not constrained by the opinion that there is an overriding absolute morality lurking about in the universe.
Would it be better to kill the women and children or turn them into slaves? How about instead of making them slaves, we let them starve to death?
How about if we don't either let the child victims of our attacks on enemy cities starve to death or make slaves of them?
The answer you have given as to why slavery, murder, genocide etc is wrong is that man is genetically programmed to be good
Sigh. No that is not the answer I gave. It isn't even close.
One of the points exmarine has made is that many of God's commands are designed to mitigate the bad.
Right. The bad results for the children of the Mideanites forced into sexual servitude, for example, at God's command.
After you finally get around to reading the Bible in context, read the Constitution.
Could you quote me the list of amendments that forbid slavery, such as to make the 13th amendment something special in that regard?
CONTEXT: apparent definition: a carefully selected arrangement of biblical quotations designed to support one's own contention, carefully ignoring any contradictory evidence from the bible.