Reply To: Theological Conundrum (read at your own risk)

Avram:

What is the value of aligning motivation with ??? if not the good feeling?

By the way, your example of the terrorist brings out a good point. You say that the terrorist feels good about killing people. Now I assume you would say that what he is doing is inherently bad, yet you still assume that he feels good.

So it seems that the good feeling is based on the person’s own understanding of his purpose. The terrorist thinks his purpose is to kill people and he feels good; the good samaritan thinks his purpose is to help people and he feels good. At the end of the day what is the difference between them?