When you live in a family you soon learn that you can only avoid plagues for so long. Sometimes it can be better to get sick sooner rather than later. In my experience, anyway.

Get well!

I did ask him how right and wrong are determined (hence his “common sense” statement), and when I challenged that, he responded by asking how old I was and then proceeded to tell me, more or less, that “I know more than you by virtue of having more life experience than you because I’m older.” I wanted to take that up because *one* of the problems with that definition is that means the older you are the more qualified you are to determine what’s right and wrong. Hmmm… and I also wanted to ask him his definition of God but unfortunately we had to go.

I hope that makes sense. After successfully avoiding the two most recent plagues, I’m starting to get sick. Not fun.

Galena

- Second, common sense is a meaningless standard for morality, because it is codified (i.e. written) nowhere. Therefore, every human being on the planet would have a different conception of what “common sense” dictates in a certain situation. Who’s “common sense” are we going to follow? By what right can you impose your common sense on me, if my common sense says differently? Under this system, every man is a law unto himself, and any action is justifiable. However, this is almost certainly not what he intended by stating this; what he really meant is that everyone should follow common sense, as long as they agree with his view of morality. He presumably would not be fine with people stealing his car if their common sense told them to. Once again, he arbitrarily sets himself up as the standard, usurping the place of God and His Word. Since that authority has not been given to man, any such attempt will end in moral chaos.