So, I just want to say this is harder than I thought it would be. At best I can follow his reasoning on an impression level, once in a while I can follow it on an intellectual level but it is so hard to reitterate. I will continue to try though. Please, if what I say strikes your fancy, read the book. He is so much more eloquent and understandable. :)
Here we go. So, can we say that a rock is "wrong" just because it is a shape or is in a place that is inconvienient for us? Can we say that a tree is wrong for growing where it did and how it did? Does it have a choice? Did it intentionally grow there or exist there because it wanted to? No, that would be absurd. Inanimate objects do not have a will and therefore do not have a choice what to do or not to do. They just do as they were created to do... no apologies, no excuses.
Can you say that someone has good morals? What makes them good? Is it another set of morals outside of that which says they either line up with the ultimate good or not? C.S. Lewis had an illustration about football. Is saying that the point of football is to get a touchdown? Or is that redundant? Getting a touchdown IS football.
Really I am not doing this justice at all. Sheesh. Read the chapter.
Hopefully I do better then next chapter.
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