“With all of you men out there who think that having a thousand different ladies is pretty cool, I have learned in my life I've found out that having one woman a thousand different times is much more satisfying.” -- Wilt Chamberlain, 1999 interview with Al Meltzer
Maybe we make up right and wrong. Maybe human nature doesn't have any inbuilt meaning; maybe the way of life I choose has moral meaning just because I choose it.
All this talk about "conscience" is rot. Moral beliefs are pumped in from outside. Some people never acquire any at all.
Video of Marvin Olasky Interviewing Me
Comment from a student: "The Pope is thought to be pretty progressive. Has he softened the Church’s stance on moral issues?”
Highlights of an interview conducted by Marvin Olasky of World magazine, 2015
You speak of what we “can’t not know,” but surely children don't already know the natural law.
Mondays are my student query days.
Question:
I’ve been arguing with some of my friends about marriage and family. When I bring up a certain scholar’s findings, they say “His data and inferences are worthless because he’s cooperated in a project of the Vatican.” I don’t know how to answer that. Has he really done work with the Vatican?
It would be much easier to agree upon the answers if only people would take the questions seriously.
You saying playing fair is a natural law. But some people don't play fair.
I haven't argued that people always obey these precepts. I've only argued that they know them.
If they don't always obey them, then how do you know that they know them?