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  1. Doomsought

    Morals must be axiomatic: debate

    The existence of the state and the power behind all of its actions are ultimately the use of force. Though great effort goes into justifying the existence of the state, it is only raw violence and the threat there of that cause it to exist. Therefore any argument that uses law as the basis of...
  2. Doomsought

    Morals must be axiomatic: debate

    If we accept that morality is formed of (mathematical) axioms, we actually learn quite a few things about morality do to the study of axioms. Foremost is that morality is either finite and inconsistent (which would also make it invalid) or the rules of morality are infinite and uncountable. Only...
  3. Doomsought

    Morals must be axiomatic: debate

    Morals pretty much have to be mathematical axioms, since they have no physical structure and can only be described using various forms of propositional logic. Proving morality is the same type of endevor as proving that 1+1 must equal 2, it sounds simple but is in no way trivial, the opposite...
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