Originally posted by Jim B.
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I know that suffering is bad for me but I'm not an animal. I can abstract to the fact that suffering itself is a bad thing. I can view myself and properties like suffering independent of my fears and desires. Anyone viewing the world objectively has reason to stop it. We don't just formulate fears and desires like rats, but formulate reasons so they can be viewed objectively, independent of the desires we actually have, which enables us to say what others have reasons to do and what we would have reasons to do if our desires were different. This is what sets us apart from dogs and rats.
If I'm severely burned, there's a reason for me to be given morphine independent of the fact that the pain is mine - namely that such burn pain itself is dreadful.
That pleasures are impersonally good and dreadful pains are impersonally bad are statement s that you'd have to have strong reasons to doubt.
If I'm severely burned, there's a reason for me to be given morphine independent of the fact that the pain is mine - namely that such burn pain itself is dreadful.
That pleasures are impersonally good and dreadful pains are impersonally bad are statement s that you'd have to have strong reasons to doubt.
You're assuming once again that God IS the good, which is the point we're debating. If the statement 'God is the Good' isn't intelligible, then there is good reason to think it isn't so, as that article indicated that I posted a link to and that you never bothered to read.
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