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Politics : Should God be replaced?
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To: Greg or e who wrote (18779)12/1/2004 1:06:40 PM
From: Solon  Read Replies (1) of 28931
 
"Your argument suffers from the Naturalistic fallacy."

You don’t understand the meaning of naturalistic fallacy. Suffice it to say, that it can not be argued except in the face of an agreed acceptance of Absolute terms (such as “goodness”, “ought”, “virtuous”, etc.). I generally use the word “value” in order to make it clear that the “ought” is strictly relative and based on opinion and point of view and that no attempt is being made to equate it with anything ultimate. As an example, I recognize that pain can be pleasurable for some people in certain circumstances.

Language , nor even reason, can pin down the intricacies of a human being and fix his nature in one single spot like a preserved butterfly. The key point is that opinion may be either reasonable or unreasonable--and that it may be tested in the proving ground of life. It may be refined by experiment, and it may be enriched by sharing.
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