No actions are objectively morally right and no actions are objectively morally wrong.
I reject the above bolded claim. But some theists apparently accept it.
Now, some people might disagree with what I said, by claiming that:
But this reply fails, since God's commands'law don't make actions objectively right or objectively wrong. At best, God's commands'law would make actions subjectively right and subjectively wrong, as per the subjectivist position known divine command theory. Here's a Wikipedia introduction to this (though there are more reputable sources that make much the same point):
So God's commands / God's law, are not going to make actions objectively right/wrong. And since some theists think that actions could not be objectively right/wrong without an existent God's commands, then that means, on these theist's position, there are not objectively right/wrong actions. Which would make sense, since these theists don't think there are any objective moral facts. So, for these theists, the Holocaust was not objectively wrong, nor was Apartheid, nor were various instances of rape, nor...
Amazing. Just amazing.
I reject the above bolded claim. But some theists apparently accept it.
Now, some people might disagree with what I said, by claiming that:
God's law is what makes actions objectively morally right or objectively morally wrong. So if God commands that we not do X (as reflected in God's law for us), then it's objectively wrong for us to do X.
But this reply fails, since God's commands'law don't make actions objectively right or objectively wrong. At best, God's commands'law would make actions subjectively right and subjectively wrong, as per the subjectivist position known divine command theory. Here's a Wikipedia introduction to this (though there are more reputable sources that make much the same point):
"Ethical subjectivism is the meta-ethical view which claims that:
[...]
However there are also universalist forms of subjectivism such as ideal observer theory (which claims that moral propositions are about what attitudes a hypothetical ideal observer would hold) and divine command theory (which claims that moral propositions are about what attitudes God holds)."
1. Ethical sentences express propositions.
2. Some such propositions are true.
3. Those propositions are about the attitudes of people.[1]
2. Some such propositions are true.
3. Those propositions are about the attitudes of people.[1]
[...]
However there are also universalist forms of subjectivism such as ideal observer theory (which claims that moral propositions are about what attitudes a hypothetical ideal observer would hold) and divine command theory (which claims that moral propositions are about what attitudes God holds)."
So God's commands / God's law, are not going to make actions objectively right/wrong. And since some theists think that actions could not be objectively right/wrong without an existent God's commands, then that means, on these theist's position, there are not objectively right/wrong actions. Which would make sense, since these theists don't think there are any objective moral facts. So, for these theists, the Holocaust was not objectively wrong, nor was Apartheid, nor were various instances of rape, nor...
Amazing. Just amazing.
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