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Originally Posted by PleasurePhD
Don't want to get into it, and I'm not really taking sides, but you didn't really make any point which supports your argument and invalidates his by bringing up that example.Originally Posted by Levar Burton
Originally Posted by MonStar1
No they aren't. Sad thing is you guys think everything is "subjective". Thats most of yall don't stand for anything and fall for everything.
Really they arent? That's news to me, so Joseph Kony the "Christian Extremist" or those Christians who profited from slavery of Africans in early America are just in their actions? They too have respect for themselves and actions they've learned from their parents who told them it's the "correct" way a person with morals behaves. According to you their moral actions aren't subjective.
In your argument they would be right because morals are subjective to you and there for who can be "right" or "wrong" we are all animals and our actions are just actions which we label (right or wrong) depending on religious belief, societal belief, etc...
In his argument he is arguing from a philosophical stand point in which humans are above the naturalistic laws of just survival of the fittest and actions are just actions. He believes that because of our higher cognitive ability we can separate our selves from animals and realize the repercussions of our actions, not just in the immediate, but well into the distance future. We can reason at what actions would minimize harm, that is unnecessary, and we have the ability to control not only our physical actions but emotions too. His "raised correctly" his "right" and "wrong" do not apply to a small group of individuals whom belong to a specific society or religion, but to ALL men and women. He believes that since we are capable of rationalizing and deducing outcomes before they happen because of our intelligence, that binds us ALL to a code if you will. An intrinsic and inherent law between humans in which there ARE right and wrong actions, and in certain circumstances there is NO gray area. It's either you are right or you are wrong, no matter what religion, race, sex, etc...
Again, I'm not saying he is right 100%, but a perfect example which supports his ideas would be sexually assaulting an innocent child. It doesn't take any long and hard thinking to know that no matter what your beliefs are as a human it is WRONG. No matter what the circumstances are.
All this right here