/lit/ - Literature

>>10777556
>THE THREAT OF ETERNAL PUNISHMENT IS NOT REQUIRED FOR MORALITY TO EXIST.
you're confusing two canards here. one is about moral behaviour, the other is about moral realism. the "eternal punishment" thing is about the debate over whether or not people need metaphysical threats looming over their heads to behave "morally". the existence of an objective reality, and whether you believe it is dependent on god or not, while related, is distinct.
>What is right is moral, and what is wrong is immoral. It is self-evidently true that progress, advancement, or development is better than degeneration or regression.
for whom? what is progress? very whiggish...
is progress an end in itself? when we say something has "progressed" we mean it has changed in a way that we like, that is desirable to us. when we say something has declined, we mean the change is undesirable... but it can only be desirable or undesirable to a conscious being with motives, needs and values. these vary wildly.
>When animals evolve and develop larger brains, higher intelligence and more advanced characteristics that is GOOD. Evolution is good.
was it good before a being with sufficient intelligence, social and motor skills was able to discover the forces of evolution and pronounce them "good"?
you should already be aware that evolution does not work toward larger brains and greater intelligence in all circumstances. you've heard of the concept of "evolutionary fitness", yes? traits that increase a creature's "fitness" to their environment are preserved and proliferated, while traits that aren't, for very simple causal reasons, do not.
evolution isn't human, so it doesn't share our biases. neither does basic chemistry, for that matter - we just don't both ascribing much moral value to rocks and the forces which work upon them.
>Just think: passion, chaos, degeneracy, not good.
dummy.

>>10761928
>Inappropriate subtext.

>>10711188
>1.999... and 2 aren't two different numbers. They are the same number.

>>10685131
>its not like Bible doesn't say, not even small children wont understand

>What goes around, comes around

>preface by J.M. Coetzee

>>10665259
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>>10664276

i did, theres a problem though

Beginning to get back into reading and I've been having an annoying problem while I read. I always imagine things differently than what they are supposed to be. For a while I thought that Hogwarts looked like a high school, like generic high school with some fancy stuff on it and then when I watched the movie it was a castle. Is this a common problem for others?