Over the last day or so, somebody styling himself a Meta-Ethical Subjectivist tried to concoct some system of morality based, as near as I could make out, on propoositions like \u201cOught\u201d means \u201cWhatever I desire and I don\u2019t have to explain that\u201d and \u201cThings are wrong if you have the power to make people who do things you don\u2019t want them to do to stop.\u201d It was a very confusing conversation with a person as firmly convinced of their soaring intellect as they were unskilled in making sense to anybody outside the tiny bubble of their thoughts. You can read it starting here<\/a>. It\u2019s really quite funny and does a marvelous job of illustrating my point that atheist attempts to derive \u201cought\u201d from \u201cis\u201d always consist of theft from theism with its capacity for a Transcendent Ought.<\/p>\n What amused me the most is that Chris simply does not seem to grasp in the slightest what I was getting at and remains as firmly ensconced in his sense of overwhelming intellectual superiority<\/a>. It\u2019s a classic case of the tendency of some atheists to worship the intellect rather than use it. Meanwhile, I will let the inimitable Tom Kreitzberg <\/a>do the autopsy on Chris\u2019 hilarious train wreck:<\/p>\n I get that the Enlightened Thinker, who sees through the superstitions and magical thinking of the herd, will suddenly appear and with a great gush of words try to make himself understood.<\/p>\n I get that, when the herd reacts poorly, with distrust and mockery instead of understanding and acceptance, the Enlightened Thinker will move on.<\/p>\n What I don\u2019t get is why, nine times out of ten, the Enlightened Thinker can\u2019t leave without hurling insults of his own on the way out.<\/p>\n It doesn\u2019t reflect well on Enlightened Thinking that Enlightened Thinkers, once the fizz is gone from their Suck-O-Lux Vacuum Cleaner Company of Walla Walla Washington opening, almost always turn out to be as petty and narrowminded as the pettiest and narrowminded Herd Thinkers.<\/p>\n One possible explanation is that Enlightened Thinkers are almost always merely Herd Thinkers who have wandered over from another herd.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n