js..I object to untruths being reprated by liars and ignoramuses. Saying it once, Betty, is an error, but saying it again and again after being repeatedly correct is filth.
Irish...Your obvious display of moral outrage is but yet more evidence of the self-contradictory and crassly hypocritical nature of your worldview js1138. If there are lies then there is truth.
And where there are these metaphysical constructs, there are also unchanging universal moral standards (absolutes) by which to judge them. And of course, if these metaphysical constructs exist, it stands to reason that a transcendant Judge—the creator of universal moral law— exists as well. In essence, js, you have said: “Thou shalt not lie.” Your entire argument is contradictory to the postulations (matter-in-motion; chance, random,purposeless, meaningless, accidental, impersonal, etc) of your worldview.
Question: if all that exists is the material or sensory realm, then how do you know of the immaterial? Further, who is it that you cry out to for justice with your claim of untruth? Matter cares nothing for you, nor do its handmaidens: chance and natural selection.
Within the strait-jacket of your worldview where truth and lie do not exist, the most logical reaction from you would have been no reaction at all.
Yes, but that is a transcendental fallacy.