The Apologists Appeal To Conditional Morality
The moral argument for God requires the existence of a moral realism that can only be sustained by a deity. To argue that moral facts exist, the apologist finds commonality between himself and the nonbeliever by highlighting mutual condemnation of certain actions. Common agreement does not prove a moral fact�s existence, it only shows a shared judgement, but thats the tactic that is most commonly used nevertheless. Commonality is usually reached with the condemnation of the act of murder. What makes an act a murder? The act itself is killing. We could break it down further to the type of act be it stabbing or shooting or poisoning, but the method is not usually factored in. What makes a killing a murder are, at the minimum, four conditions. 1. The victim must be born human. 2. The victim has not expressed a specific desire to be killed. 3. The victim must not be posing a significant and direct threat to the acting party. 4. The acting party must have the intension to kill. One could ar...