edy420 » October 11th, 2017, 2:53 am wrote:[ Serpent -- Morality has meaning only to entities that have some transactional relationship to one another.]
Can you elaborate on why there has to be some relationship?
Because that's what morality means: a list of do's and dont's, with a corresponding list of penalties for non-compliance - a lamb for this, an ox for that, death by stoning for the other.
A covenant:
"Thou shalt worship the lord thy god with all thy might and all thy soul."
In return, I'll deliver you from evil, make you lie down in green pastures, lead you beside the still waters....
...slay your enemies and give you their lands and daughters.... If you pray for a son long enough, I may grant that wish, then ask for him back, and when you've psyched yourself up to slit his throat, I might say: Just kidding! Here, have a ram instead...
I don't like referencing the Bible, but there are examples where God does have a relationship with some people.
All gods have a relationship with their people. That's the point of gods.
They may reward your fidelity by giving you another man's wife, or by killing your children and covering you with sores... Just kidding! Here, have some new kids. Or save you from pursuit and feed you in the desert, even though you'd been stiff-necked and idolizing all over the place.
If you don't like referencing the bible, why use its language?
That language is appropriate to that context: you get smitten for loving and sinning.
Yet my argument is this analogy suggests the God in the Bible is still amoral, even when burning these people alive.
The god of the bible is a mean, spiteful, capricious, unreliable SOB. I wouldn't worship that one, or recommend him to anyone else. So?
No Mans Sky developers may love their creations and build a relationship with Pikawho by creating an interactive avatar.
Who is interacting with whom? Is the creation interacting with the god, or are two different gods playing with the creations as if they were chess pieces? An intelligent entity may feel possessive toward its creation, but what makes him a god is how the creation feel toward him.
Even if they burn him alive, there's still no moral implications.
Of course not. They can't burn him alive, unless he
is alive, in the same way that the creator is alive: both entities have to live in the same realm in order for that sentence to mean anything.
Smiting is interactive.
Deletion is impersonal. Once you use the appropriate language, the obfuscation clears right up.
Pikawho could discover he was created by God/s, through unanswered questions in science, similar to the way Einstein did.
Has Pikawho done this? That is the crux of the matter.
No need for worship, a relationship, or sacrifice.
Then there is no god. It's just a universe.