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This is an honest question; what would you say to someone who says: “Unfaithful women are to be stoned to death. God told me so, everyone I know agrees with me, so it is a moral absolute.”

On what basis are you (we) right and they wrong?

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BluJay320@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
God is a fairy tale, and stoning someone to death for any reason is horrible and barbaric.

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1984@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Always enjoy a good stoning. The screams of a dying woman, wonderful thing.

Above is a bit of sarcasm to make my point. We do know inside what is wrong when we do something.

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- StillWatersPony@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Nothing is objective, least of all morality. And not everyone “knows inside when they do something wrong”. Some people are legit wired differently and don’t care, or actually get positive feedback from those screams you sarcastically brought up.
  
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  - 1984@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Yes, those are evil people. The world is made up of both kinds. But they are a lot less, and it’s not likely that they will get the majority to accept their twisted ideas.
    
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    BluesF@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Ok so who’s deciding which people are evil and which aren’t? There are plenty of wrong things (according to me, today) that have been consensus among some for hundreds or even thousands of years. Adults marrying children. Slavery. Execution of homosexuals.
    
    Or consider that vegan/vegetarians would say that slaughtering animals is wrong, and that they know that in the same “innate” way that you’re describing… and yet the majority disagree with them. So who’s right? Where can we get this objectivity? If it’s just our “gut” then I’m sorry but there is not a single morality, there are 7 billion separate objective moralities.
    
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    m0darn@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Should children be raised by parents that are neglecting them (not educating them, not preparing them for anything other than subsistence living) or is it moral for the state to take the kids away?
    
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Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Unfaithfulness is not objective. It’s subjective. Death is objective, not subjective.

This is a logical fallacy.

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- FMT99@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  A religious person might disagree with both those statements.
  
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