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1779751 No.1779751 [Reply] [Original]

I have a question for you, atheists

if math is ALWAYS consistent, why is morality not?

>> No.1779760

Good question. I was wondering the same thing.

>> No.1779767

Because it's not math or logic

/thread

>> No.1779777

because morality is a social construct

>> No.1779783

> math is always consistent
Um... no. It is very easy to generate an inconsistent system. We have not found inconsistent systems to be particularly useful, mathematically.

>> No.1779787

Because morals and ethics are two different things.

>> No.1779803

>>1779783
so, math is consistent.

>> No.1779824

>>1779803
prove it

>> No.1779839

>>1779824
you/they said it themselves, inconsistent systems are of little use in math

>> No.1779847

Morality is a lot more complicated, and many of the variables are occluded.

We are always getting better at it, though.

>> No.1779873

>>1779839
So we do not intentionally create inconsistent systems. That doesn't mean we avoided unintentionally created one.

>> No.1779882

>>1779751
lrn2 godels incompleteness theorem

>> No.1779887

Because morality isn't real.

>> No.1779912

>>1779839
your brain also is of little use in math, but it still exists.

>> No.1779939

>>1779887

The problem is the definition of morality is totally wrong.

It is not a start point, it is a goal.

It is not a set of physical laws to be discovered, it is a set of cultural rules to be determined. A continuous refinement, a continuous increase in the understanding of how humans best get along with one another, the variables and even supposed constants of the equation being altered all the time.

Which is why the morality of a hundred, or a thousand, or ten thousand years ago seems woefully inadequate to us.

>> No.1779952

Morality is not objective as math is, it's subjective and relative.

Deal with it.