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In reply to the discussion: Why Science Can’t Replace Religion [View all]intaglio
(8,170 posts)First I used your definition and demonstrated that it is a nonsense. You also make an assertion in your headline that is false then build your argument upon that foolish misconception.
You want to change the goalposts again? Fine
You choose the word Mores which is "customs and conventions of a community". The Thugees were communities and they obeyed the customs and conventions of that community. It also implies "moral attitudes" - how does this change my arguments regarding your non-definition of morals?
You still have not defined morals. Indeed you will continue to fail to do so because you have no definitions which do not involve meaningless imponderables.
Next where did I state that morals are a "universal,objective norm"? I used the word "normative," the standard description of actions not dependent either upon authority and interpretation nor on immutable physical compulsion, but upon usual (normal) behaviour. Usual does not mean "universal". The fact that usual behaviours are similar across a wide range of social species and communities does not grant them the status of "natural law" but it does grant the insight that there may be sound reasons for such behaviours in the underlying biology of creatures examined. The only "natural laws" in this are those of chemistry
You continue with the idea that "morality has a much more subjective view than that". That sentence is rendered meaningless by its construction (morality has a view? Is morality a creature as well?) but I suppose you mean that you and others of your ilk view morality as subjective; which is precisely what highlighted when I pointed out that you and those of your view are entirely at the mercy of those who instruct you or others in right and wrong and morality. This renders your morality completely without foundation. I believe the NT mentions the problem of building a house upon sand.
So please do not falsely interpret my words to mean what you want them to mean. Natural law argument ...