06-01-2008, 01:32 AM
Alright, then. Let's say that a man laying with another man in a sexual manner is objectively immoral. If one happens to commit the offense, what then? Objective morals must have a reason, a possible use. What is their use here? What is one's consequence for acting in an immoral manner? If there is none, then it objective morals are useless and would always be useless, thus effectively do not exist.
My point was that it is really only applicable to sentient beings. This does not necessarily lessen your position, but I don't see any reason why sentience should be all that special. I am of the Copernican idea that we are an insignificant species living in an insignificant time period on an insignificant planet in an insignificant solar system, in an insignificant galaxy (not to mention an insignificant part of a galaxy), in an insignificant galaxy cluster, in an insignificant supercluster. Also, it presupposes free will, which I see no reason to believe in.
My point was that it is really only applicable to sentient beings. This does not necessarily lessen your position, but I don't see any reason why sentience should be all that special. I am of the Copernican idea that we are an insignificant species living in an insignificant time period on an insignificant planet in an insignificant solar system, in an insignificant galaxy (not to mention an insignificant part of a galaxy), in an insignificant galaxy cluster, in an insignificant supercluster. Also, it presupposes free will, which I see no reason to believe in.
"We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl."
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