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  Moral responsibility.

  by nicolaou in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  no subtlety here, it's going to be obvious where i'm going with this.

  please consider the following scenario.. you're seated on a railway platform bench waiting for your train.

  a high speed intercity is about to hurtle through without stopping when you see a small child running to the platforms edge!

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  Sea Breeze

  Objective morality: Rules and expectations that would be the same for you and me, even though we may have different opinions, positions in life, influence etc.
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  Moral responsibility.

  by nicolaou in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  no subtlety here, it's going to be obvious where i'm going with this.

  please consider the following scenario.. you're seated on a railway platform bench waiting for your train.

  a high speed intercity is about to hurtle through without stopping when you see a small child running to the platforms edge!

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  Sea Breeze

  Why don't you define objective morality? You've already said that the term: "morals" is simply descriptive in nature. So, in your view does objective morality (as opposed to subjective morality) exist?
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  Moral responsibility.

  by nicolaou in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  no subtlety here, it's going to be obvious where i'm going with this.

  please consider the following scenario.. you're seated on a railway platform bench waiting for your train.

  a high speed intercity is about to hurtle through without stopping when you see a small child running to the platforms edge!

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  Sea Breeze

  Morals are simply the name we give to the way we choose to act towards other conscious creatures.

  Got it.

  So, allow me to clarify a bit. Are you saying that in your view all of our moral choices are equal? Or, is there such a thing as objective morality?
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  Moral responsibility.

  by nicolaou in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  no subtlety here, it's going to be obvious where i'm going with this.

  please consider the following scenario.. you're seated on a railway platform bench waiting for your train.

  a high speed intercity is about to hurtle through without stopping when you see a small child running to the platforms edge!

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  Sea Breeze

  Cofty, nice red herring. This thread is about moral responsibility. I look forward to addressing any of your assumptions on topic related threads.

  Now, like I asked you before - do you have any other sources for your morality other than what you have already presented that you'd like to discuss? Or, is that about it?
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  Anyone know what this sculpture is of the "torture stake?"

  by charity7 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  hey guys!

  i'm new on this site and am a non jw here married to a jw.

  my husband's family are active members and they daily post articles on facebook from jw.org which i know is meant for me to see and read.

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  Sea Breeze

  Welcome to the board Charity.

  Here area some early references to the cross:

  Alexamenos graffito

  
  

  Pompeii, Roman and Herculaneum
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  Moral responsibility.

  by nicolaou in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  no subtlety here, it's going to be obvious where i'm going with this.

  please consider the following scenario.. you're seated on a railway platform bench waiting for your train.

  a high speed intercity is about to hurtle through without stopping when you see a small child running to the platforms edge!

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  Sea Breeze

  We all know you have compassion Nicolaou. This is not the question. The question is how did you get it?

  Animals don't care if another animal runs off a cliff. In your world view, that's a good thing, right? We're just animals right?
  
  If one animal runs off a cliff, doesn't that allow more food for those that don't? Doesn't that increase the gene pool of those that don't run off cliffs?

  The simple fact is that you know that child headed for the train has intrinsic value because he is made in the image of God and is your neighbor. You know that you are obligated to save that child because God is a savior God. You know the Christian God in your heart of hearts.
  
  You can deny God because God gave you the ability to do so. But you cannot escape the reason, compassion and love of God no matter how much you hate him, because his attributes are part of you.
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  Moral responsibility.

  by nicolaou in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  no subtlety here, it's going to be obvious where i'm going with this.

  please consider the following scenario.. you're seated on a railway platform bench waiting for your train.

  a high speed intercity is about to hurtle through without stopping when you see a small child running to the platforms edge!

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  Sea Breeze

  If my actions cause harm to other people, creatures or the planet they are 'wrong'. If they benefit others they are 'good'.
  See how easy that is?

  Nicolau

  Your answer presupposses that you know what "harmful" or "good" to others is. Why would a chemical accident assume to know this for himself, much less others?

  I asked how you know if a moral rule is doing either harm or good? This the formost issue some nations are facing right now.
  
  God says it is the parents responsibility to read God's word to their children daily.

  Men with deviant sexual preferences want to educate our children to 'free" them.
  
  Can't you see the inherent arbitrairiness in the atheist worldview? It makes no sense. ANY morality not rooted in the character of God is inconsistent, arbritray and ultimately meaningless.
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  Moral responsibility.

  by nicolaou in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  no subtlety here, it's going to be obvious where i'm going with this.

  please consider the following scenario.. you're seated on a railway platform bench waiting for your train.

  a high speed intercity is about to hurtle through without stopping when you see a small child running to the platforms edge!

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  Sea Breeze

  Nicolaou,

  I didn't dismiss your response. But you never responded when I challenged your assumption:

  how do you determine "good" in a chance universe?

  What if one person says they benefit from eliminating Jews, and another person says they benefit by changing the definition of marriage, and yet another says they benefit by educating our youth on transgenderism?

  What say you?
  
  In other words, what is objectively wrong with this picture? Isn't he just another chemical mistake like you claim that you are?
  
  
  
  
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  Moral responsibility.

  by nicolaou in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  no subtlety here, it's going to be obvious where i'm going with this.

  please consider the following scenario.. you're seated on a railway platform bench waiting for your train.

  a high speed intercity is about to hurtle through without stopping when you see a small child running to the platforms edge!

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  Sea Breeze

  Cofty,

  Those topics have been covered many times before on this forum. There are many good websites that demonstrate the errors in your assumptions, like:

  https://christianthinktank.com/

  And:

  https://www.gotquestions.org/

  Are you done defending your atheism? Or, do you have another source (other than God) to present that accounts for your objective morality?
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  Observation

  by pontoon in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  haven't been to a meeting in 13 years.

  family that lives 1300 miles away doesn't know.

  just visited them and here is what i observed.

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  Sea Breeze

  Thanks Smiddy,

  The suffering we have all experienced is very real and does not discriminate for or against one worldview or another.