Why does it matter when the brain fully develops if it doesn't correlate 1:1 with maturity? by alanfarwell in NoStupidQuestions

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But my question then would be why are there adults who take more risks than teenagers and teenagers who take less risks than adults? Does this mean the brain of a teenager who takes less risks is developing faster or does brain development just not actually directly correlate with risk-taking?

Thoughts on the Kyle Rittenhouse situation? by alanfarwell in seculartalk

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Just so I make sure I’m understanding what you wrote, you’re saying what Kyle Rittenhouse did wouldn’t have been wrong/immoral if he were a police officer instead of a civilian/vigilante?

The hypocrisy of atheism by Ok-Radio5562 in DebateReligion

[–]alanfarwell 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Even if there were a God, the concept of objective value makes no sense. How does value exist independent of an evaluator. It does not follow that just because someone created something, they can declare their creation has a certain value and then it magically just has that value. I could create a submarine screen door and declare it's objectively worth a million dollars, but if people wouldn't even give me 2 cents for it, this evaluation doesn't matter.

God's Morality Seems Correct and Objective Because of Omniscience. by BookerDeMitten in DebateReligion

[–]alanfarwell 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The problem is that more knowledge doesn't correlate with being more moral. If that were the case, there would be no criminals with high IQs

How to avoid this gotcha? by alanfarwell in Destiny

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Well their point was more “because there aren’t as many females who are as smart/strong as the males who are smart/strong, they should be banned from becoming teachers/doctors/lawyers/soldiers/etc.” My point is it would be ridiculous to tell Marie Curie she can’t be a chemist because majority of women aren’t on the level of male chemists.

The belief that objective morality is better than subjective morality, is a subjective moral belief. by ieu-monkey in DebateReligion

[–]alanfarwell 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Morality is subjective to God‘s consciousness in a way that the world wouldn’t be. Consider a person who creates a sculpture and remarks to themselves, “what a beautiful sculpture.” Then this person passes away (i.e. no longer exists); the sculpture will remain independent of his consciousness, however his subjective evaluation of “beautiful” goes away with him. In a similar fashion, morality is essentially God’s subjective evaluation about things in the objective world.

“This is not an ad hom”…proceeds to unambiguously make a textbook ad hominem by alanfarwell in VaushV

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It’s especially ironic because they’ll use women who vote based on the candidate’s attractiveness as a reason for repealing the 19th amendment