Acartia_Bogart
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| Quote | clown fishMay 30, 2016 at 7:46 am
KAirosfocus,
Does putting a number in front of every sentence make your points more valid? I don’t think so, but I am willing to follow your example.
1 –> I think that Seversky has made some very good points and observations at 349.
2 –> Most of your SETs are wishful thinking.
3 –> Subjectively derived truths, not self-evident truths.
4 –> Most people have morals and a conscience.
5 –> This can be considered a truth based on extensive observation but not as a SET.
6 –> If we were alone on a desert island, how would we know that other people have moral values and a conscience; this can only be known by observation.
7 –> We are indoctrinated from an early age with rules, whether from church, parents, teachers, etc.
8 –> Violations of any of these results in negative consequences to us, therefore, reinforcing our core morals.
9 –> By observing the negative consequences of (hopefully) minor infractions of these core moral values, this reinforces those that we have not violated; in the same way that it requires observation to discern the truth that not everyone has the same hair colour.
10 –> Experience, observation, critical thinking and the ability to predict the consequences of actions further reinforce our core moral values as well as establishing new ones.
11 –> Some of the moral values established through critical thinking and the ability to predict consequences will start out as being less strongly held but could become more deeply entrenched with further observation and experience.
12 –> You will notice that none of this requires objective moral values. |
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