Yes it is all opinion. You claim to like definitions... so what is your definition of 'right'? — A Seagull
Sure morality is subjective but your argument is circular, the ability to influence public opinion is power and you say public opinion is influenced by power. — Judaka
Society doesn't see anything wrong with not taking care of their mentally ill because the mentally ill are essentially powerless. — Wheatley
LORETTA: I agree. It's action that counts, not words, and we need action now.
COMMANDOS: Hear! Hear!
REG: You're right. We could sit around here all day talking, passing resolutions, making clever speeches. It's not going to shift one Roman soldier!
FRANCIS: So, let's just stop gabbing on about it. It's completely pointless and it's getting us nowhere!
COMMANDOS: Right!
LORETTA: I agree. This is a complete waste of time. [bam]
On a decent forum, folk would have immediately pointed out that the OP commits the naturalistic fallacy. — Banno
We know what we know because we think what we think. — Outlander
I mean, would you rather be slaughtered by people who destroyed everything you know or live with others who did and do nothing but take care of you in exchange for labor? — Outlander
If the victim topples the other group in spite of that, is that bad? What if they do so but you found out I was lying and the victims were really the oppressors who already had control of their educational system and knowledge of history basically. — Outlander
Even if one supposes that there is no such thing as objectively good or evil, it does not follow that there is no such thing as good or evil, per se. — Banno
This hits the nail on the head. Something is done by using the terms 'good' and 'evil'. The task of moral philosophy is to clarify what that might be. The OP attempts to say that what is being done with those terms is to refer to what the most powerful decree. Three minutes spent in a pub conversation with a bunch of radical socialists will disabuse anyone of that notion. So time to move on...next suggestion. — Isaac
Your argument puts you in the position of affirming many, many thing as right that I suspect you would not think right. — tim wood
Can I really dismiss divine command theory by noting that there are people who claim that God is evil? — Michael
I think you'd be able to tell the divine command theorist that they're using the word 'evil' incorrectly in a language game which includes non-command-theorists. — Isaac
I don't think either work as a sufficient rebuttal. I could always invert this and say that Mary and the radical socialists must be wrong given what John and Gitonga say. — Michael
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