Grounding Morality

[David Sklansky]

What's wrong with everybody else that only you and me can see what is ridiculously obvious?

[snowden719]

you are such an insufferable jackass with almost no insight into ethics, why don;t you actually read a book about ethics before you decide to sound ignorant.

[Aytumious]

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you are such an insufferable jackass with almost no insight into ethics, why don;t you actually read a book about ethics before you decide to sound ignorant.

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It's not like he's alone in thinking there is no such thing as good.

[BluffTHIS!]

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What's wrong with everybody else that only you and me can see what is ridiculously obvious?

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Asylum denizens ask each other this every single day.

[Zygote]

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What's wrong with everybody else that only you and me can see what is ridiculously obvious?

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Wait a minute. I thought you were among the minority of agnostics who believe there is morality? I've probably misunderstood something somewhere, but would you mind clearing this up for me?

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What's wrong with everybody else that only you and me can see what is ridiculously obvious?

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I'm guessing that you didn't ask that question simply for me to answer it, but I'm gonna answer it anyway

I think it's something to do with that idea in your thread "One of the Basic Questions of Philosophy?"

I think we have evolved to not 'see what is ridiculously obvious', and there are many possible reasons why (chance, symptom of another advantagous incorrect way of thinking, needed for social interaction and hence needed for communities, etc.)

[PairTheBoard]

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What's wrong with everybody else that only you and me can see what is ridiculously obvious?

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Hey, I can see what's obvious if it's ridiculous enough.

PairTheBoard

[snowden719]

the dilemma is not an argument aginst God, but more along the lines of an argument grounding the answer to the normative quesiton in God. If we say that part of God's nature is good, then does that mean there is some understanding of good that is seperate from God that is instantiated in God, because then we seem to be saying that god doesn;t ground morality, but that this good that is instantiated does.