[MD] Flying Spagetti Monsters
craigerb at comcast.net
craigerb at comcast.net
Tue Sep 26 16:01:48 PDT 2006
[Jos]
> I like to make a distinction, but recognise that it's flawed:
I don't find the distinction (flawed or otherwise) that you allude to, anywhere in what follows.
> Cultural morality defines its own version of evil within a given culture,
> intellect is informed by this definition.
Is it really the definition of 'evil', or what the definition applies to, that is at issue?
> Acts are "described by" cultural level consciousness as good or evil. The
> question of whether they actually are or not, is not visible to intellect,
> as intellect is a pattern written on top of a what is always a realtively
> predjudiced cultural viewpoint.
But what if someone disagrees with the viewpoint of their culture. Are they still prejudiced?
> At any point where we try to state what is good and what is evil we can only
> do so by creating static descriptions of both, but as good is implicitly a
> dynamic phenomena (thus so is it's absence) we know that all static
> definitions are inaccurate.
1) Stating what is good requires a static description.
2) Good is dynamic.
3) :. All static definitions are innaccurate.
There are missing premises to your argument.
Craig
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