thread ressurected, i've recently been in an argument with a christian on this stuff so yeah
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I go by what relatively "makes sense."
an argument conservative christians will make is "but hitler was going by what "made sense" to him relatively with the holocaust"
my moral or ethical code is that an action is only justified by the reason behind the action, if the reason for the deed is correct or justified then that is morally right, if the reason behind the deed or action is flawed, unintentionally wrong or intentionally wrong then i consider that to be wrong and unjust. i believe determining if a reason is wrong, right, just or unjust can be done by humans and requires no god to do so, which is why we have court rooms, judges and lawyers which run on the laws decided by humans, thefore morality does not require a god
eg. the holocaust was wrong because hitlers entire belief of a superior race of aryan people was incorrect, its a fact that no race is superior to another race therefore hitlers reasons behind the holocaust were incorrect and unjust.
another example:
the war in iraq is unjust because the reason we went was to find weapons of mass destruction
we found no weapons of mass destruction and bush admitted even if there were no weapons of mass destruction he would have gone anyway, so the reasons for the war were dishonest and wrong since there were no weapons, this was the sole reason used to justify the war and bush pretty much admitted they weren't the real reasons he went, therefore we went to war for dishonest reasons so we didn't have a good reason to go, therefore the war is morally wrong.
i only just came up with this theory so there may be flaws in it, feel free to pick them out
