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Originally Posted by tompe
I was thinking about instaces were X is a God or a goverment or a culture. And especially in the God case you cannot show what is good.
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Ok, lets go with the X is god thing.
I do not know of any God type moral code(for lack of a better way to put it, I've had some sleeping pills and am probably not thinking straight!) that says "go out and kill people for no reason at all, that is a good thing to do". If there is some sort of religion that teaches that then I will happily stand corrected.
Now, there are many instances of people claiming their god told them to go out and kill for this or that reason. I may not agree with their moral code but at least you could argue that it is a moral code because a higher power told them to go out and do it for a reason.
The only instances I have heard of people claiming god told them to go murder a bunch of people for the fun of it or for no reason at all were clearly delusional, mentally unhinged people. I see that as no different to them simply saying I did it cause it was fun and it is ok because I say it is ok. I don't think it is a rational argument to suggest that this be considered any sort of true moral code.
Cheers,
PKFFW