On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 6:33 PM, Sasha Pachev <sa...@asksasha.com> wrote: > Because he lived in a society that as a whole has rejected the idea of God- > given moral compass and tried to invent its own.
It is disingenuous to assert that everyone who struggles with questions of ethics in the absence of a divine command will come to the same conclusions that the Soviet Union did. > If you reject God, how do you know that what you believe is right is really > right? You can't. Then again, you can't know that if you accept the divine command theory, either. > If there is no good or evil, then no matter what happens - pain, hunger, > addiction, or loss of life - is just another thing, neither good nor bad. Well, if you want to be a nihilist, then I suppose you might come to that conclusion. But if you're proposing that there are only two options - religion and nihilism - then you're either missing out on several centuries of philosophical thought or you're deliberately creating a false dichotomy. > You may think this train of thought is crazy, but I am speaking from the > perspective of someone who actually has lived in a society that has suffered > severe mass deception and who has had to question every value he's been > taught from birth to figure out what was wrong and what was right. I had the same experience. I was raised Mormon. -Dan /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
