What makes something right or wrong?

Posted on March 20, 2014 | 9 Comments

Here is another of the  4 animated videos produced by the British Humanist Association. They are all narrated by Stephen Fry.

This one deals with aspects of morality – an important subject where the voice of non-theists is often ignored.

“What makes something right or wrong?” Narrated by Stephen Fry 

See: That’s Humanism: Four animated videos about Humanism narrated by Stephen Fry

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9 responses to “What makes something right or wrong?”

  3. Ken | April 4, 2014 at 6:23 am |

    Hi, Cale. Care to do a bit of a rebuttal here?

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  4. Cale B.T. | April 4, 2014 at 12:08 pm |

    I think my objections would be pretty much the same as the ones in the link. If you have some criticisms of it, I’ll give my thoughts on them.

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  5. Ken | April 4, 2014 at 12:12 pm |

    OK Cale – they are made from a religious bias – not scientifically based. Whereas the humanist position is scientifically based.

    The scientific approach is well known to be a much better way of understanding reality than is a religious approach.

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  6. Cale B.T. | April 6, 2014 at 11:12 am |

    Where, specifically, do you think that the remonstrant’s religious bias has caused him to err?

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  7. Ken | April 8, 2014 at 11:44 am |

    You seem to want to avoid specificity, Cale.

    Never mind – I think I will take the whole article you link to and discuss it. There are a number of straw men used in the article which are common to the religious apologist criticism of humanitarian ethics.

    I have written several articles on a scientific approach to morlauity in the past so it will be good to get back into the subject again. I will probably put something up in the comming week.

    Meanwhile – is there anything specifically you would like to see me address in my analysis of the article you reocmmended?

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  8. calebt45 | April 8, 2014 at 1:04 pm |

    Cool bananas. My only request: try and address him point for point, rather than going off on tangents.

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  9. Ken | April 8, 2014 at 1:14 pm |

    Sue, Caleb. But it is mainly a matter of disposing of straw men.

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