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From: "Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1>
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Subject: Re: Causal determinism and non-materialist atheism
Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2025 13:14:04 +0000
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On Fri, 3 Jan 2025 23:54:41 +1100
MarkE <me22over7@gmail.com> wrote:

[Major snip]
[about cardinal numbers]
> 
> It would be conventional to say that God makes allowances for our human 
> limitations and sensory errors. At a fair and just school, a student is 
> not condemned for not getting 100% in a test; they are in trouble for 
> cheating, bullying, etc. Our moral accountability suggests that we are 
> not robots whose actions are entirely bound by causal determinism.
> 
> 
Are moral sensibilities so easily dismissed as unknowable without a god?
Try "tit-for-tat" as an [at minimum] "ethical" strategy. It works
without any divine intervention.


-- 
Bah, and indeed, Humbug