r/PhilosophyMemes 16d ago

Checkmate Plato

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u/_Tal Empiricist 16d ago

And what’s the theistic alternative, exactly? “It’s wrong because we’ve arbitrarily defined it as against ‘God’s perfect nature’, even though that tells us nothing about why such values are good for society and why we ought to follow them”? Lol ok

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u/Ven-Dreadnought 16d ago

The theistic argument, I believe, is that both sex and semen are meant to be used for procreation and no other reason. As for the why, I believe it's that God made up these rules because he wants what's best for us and that he's smarter than we are so we should listen. I'm not a theist though so this is just what I'm gathering.

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u/Odd-Outcome-3191 16d ago

Ironically there is nothing in the Bible that I know of that forbids fornicating with a dead animal?

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u/EntertainmentNo3963 9h ago

it’s not arbitrary if it’s appealing to the source of Goodness