Hmm, reading this, and reading your comment to flurble about how if we were all perfectly informed we wouldn't make the same decisions, makes me think that the real crunch of where people disagree (and this is *obvious* now!) is that they give things different values. It's *what you like* So the evil stuff, if "pleasing god" is what you like doing / think is important then your definition of what actions are evil will be weighted subtly differently to the person who thinks that "making everyone happy" is more important. When you eat the icecream you make a snap judgement that for you the pleasure and immediate happiness of eating the icecream is worth the effort to exercise off the calories, or the stigma of being fat. And there probably isn't a right or a wrong in this... it's just *what you want to do*. People want to do different things.
If there was a point to the universe (be it God or otherwise) you could work towards the "right answer" and whims that took you away from it would be bad, and whims that took you towards it would be good, and you get an absolute morality that mortals justhaven't worked out yet. But if there is no point, people make up their own meanings of life... and its where "what's important" differs that the different moralities begin
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Date: 2005-04-05 04:37 pm (UTC)If there was a point to the universe (be it God or otherwise) you could work towards the "right answer" and whims that took you away from it would be bad, and whims that took you towards it would be good, and you get an absolute morality that mortals justhaven't worked out yet. But if there is no point, people make up their own meanings of life... and its where "what's important" differs that the different moralities begin