Fr.thinker said:good is making the distinction BTW.good and bad,bad is the confusion BTW.the two of them(?)?

Question

What's your oppinion on this?

Answer 1

I think it makes no sense, yet it is what one is left with if God is eliminated from the discussion. What Fr. thinker is actually saying, it appears, is that good is only a process of your mind, your conscience, or whatever one would call it, that chooses one thing over another as good. Bad then is not being able to choose.

Rationally that makes little sense, morally it makes no sense. Rationally, good and evil come down to whether or not I think or feel that what I am doing is alright. Thus, the individual who steals, but justifies stealing from the government or insurance company as right because they (the ins.co and gov.) have stolen it from us, is doing good. Or the man who rapes a woman because she was in a bikini, and justifies it be saying she was asking for it, has done good because to him it is good.

Yet the person who sees a blind beggar on the street and gives him money, yet wonders in his mind whether the beggar really needs it has done a bad thing because he is ambivalent about whether it was the right thing to do.

Yet, that is where our post-modernism leads. God is dead, so right and wrong are left to the individual, or in a democracy, to the majority, or in a totalitarian regime, to the powerful. Thus, Fr. Thinker's ambivalence is all that is left. Now, doesn't God make a lot more sense?

Answer 2

I guess this refers to moral absolutes (in which I believe)--apparently this person sees things as either right or wrong, no gray area--but then, it would follow that most choices between good and bad fall right on the borderline of the two, and must be examined carefully to see which side they tend toward.