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To: js1138; cornelis

I think the answer is he can think of no rational reason, besides the dictates of a Deity, to make any moral decisions. Morality in that case is subjective, not objective. It's either the subjective whims of a deity, or it is the subjective feelings of an individual. But there can no objective basis to being *moral*. The question seems nonsensical to a subjectivist.


590 posted on 12/13/2005 10:29:30 AM PST by CarolinaGuitarman ("There is a grandeur in this view of life...")
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To: CarolinaGuitarman; js1138
I think the answer is he can think of no rational reason

No, I've made an attempt to answer the questions based on Bedfellow's understanding of virtue. I will not conjure what he thinks virtue is. I only understand that we must deny eternal consequences to proceed.

593 posted on 12/13/2005 10:34:21 AM PST by cornelis
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To: CarolinaGuitarman
I think the answer is he can think of no rational reason, besides the dictates of a Deity, to make any moral decisions.

Anybody can learn to recite a dictionary definition of virtue. We have a lot of dictionary mongers online in this thread.

It strikes me that these folks are incapable of understanding the internalized desire to be a good person, to help one's children and, by extension, build a just society for one's descendants to live in.

I fully appreciate the difficulty of defining specifically what is to be done. That is what politics is about, deciding what needs to be done to improve the world.

I am curious, however, about people who aren't self-motivated to make things better.

601 posted on 12/13/2005 10:43:34 AM PST by js1138 (Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.)
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