Dr. J. Budziszewski

It could have just as likely happened there.

Yeah, they're flourishing.

They're flourishing in their way, sure.

Yeah, and so, and there would have been no significance in it.

And if you had changed it,

You could have no argument against that either.

If you say, well, you know, I find that despite all of this, I have these nagging feelings of conscience from time to time.

And they too are meaningless because they're meaningless results about this meaningless purpose that did not have me in mind.

So I'm going to implant a chip in my mind that blanks out the impulses of conscience, and I'll flourish much better then.

What argument do you have left against that?

It seems to me you don't really have any.

You might say, like British noblemen who said, well, cheating at cards is not the sort of thing I would do.

It is just not done.

You know, you would say, well, that's not the sort of thing that I would do, but you wouldn't really have any argument against doing it.

Sure.

And, and it's speciesist in another way too.

Here you've got this, if, if it's,

I have friends, including Christian friends, who don't buy this line of argument, but I think it's very good.

C.S.

Lewis had made this argument.