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7/22/2025, 9:01:22 AM
>>17860937
It seems obvious that it is wrong to torture and rape people for fun.
>"But we can't detect the property of wrongness"
It is far more obvious that it is in fact wrong to torture and rape people than that every real property has to be empirically detectable. Any argument for this claim will have premises way less plausible than the claim it is trying to deny.
>"But moral properties are really queer"
The world is weird. People used to think gravity was a spooky occult force that couldn't possibly exist. The fact that some philosophers are incredulous about morality is not a reason to deny that torture and rape are bad.
It seems obvious that it is wrong to torture and rape people for fun.
>"But we can't detect the property of wrongness"
It is far more obvious that it is in fact wrong to torture and rape people than that every real property has to be empirically detectable. Any argument for this claim will have premises way less plausible than the claim it is trying to deny.
>"But moral properties are really queer"
The world is weird. People used to think gravity was a spooky occult force that couldn't possibly exist. The fact that some philosophers are incredulous about morality is not a reason to deny that torture and rape are bad.
7/8/2025, 6:24:52 PM
>>17825040
Catholics will tell you their religion is so intellectual and philosophical, meanwhile they are constantly trying to get people to believe in ghosts and magic relics and other superstitious nonsense like this. The people who believe in this stuff are no better than pagans who worship trees and stones. If Catholicism was just the doctors of the church and the mass and whatnot, I could take it seriously, but this other half of the religion completely ruins it.
Catholics will tell you their religion is so intellectual and philosophical, meanwhile they are constantly trying to get people to believe in ghosts and magic relics and other superstitious nonsense like this. The people who believe in this stuff are no better than pagans who worship trees and stones. If Catholicism was just the doctors of the church and the mass and whatnot, I could take it seriously, but this other half of the religion completely ruins it.
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