An eternal problem: terms like morality, right, wrong, justice, law, ethics have no meaning except as regards human beings. Your belief, or lack thereof, in a God or other supernatural being changes this fact not in the least. Absent some promised Final Judgment or its equivalent, like it or not, it has always been human beings deciding …
An eternal problem: terms like morality, right, wrong, justice, law, ethics have no meaning except as regards human beings. Your belief, or lack thereof, in a God or other supernatural being changes this fact not in the least. Absent some promised Final Judgment or its equivalent, like it or not, it has always been human beings deciding these issues. The core problem is all standards are arbitrary. One man's good is another man's evil. All that being said, by no means am I saying that morality, law, etc. have no value Even Nietzsche, moral chameleon par excellence, said (more or less) that what is moral tends to produce good results for one, what is immoral tends to produce unhappy results.
An eternal problem: terms like morality, right, wrong, justice, law, ethics have no meaning except as regards human beings. Your belief, or lack thereof, in a God or other supernatural being changes this fact not in the least. Absent some promised Final Judgment or its equivalent, like it or not, it has always been human beings deciding these issues. The core problem is all standards are arbitrary. One man's good is another man's evil. All that being said, by no means am I saying that morality, law, etc. have no value Even Nietzsche, moral chameleon par excellence, said (more or less) that what is moral tends to produce good results for one, what is immoral tends to produce unhappy results.