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Ep. 395 Should the Trump Administration Give Due Process to Illegal Immigrants?

Adam Haman returns, this time discussing with Bob the controversy over sending accused gang members to an El Salvador prison. Should they be given due process? Adam and Bob then discuss the is/ought distinction from ethics.

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Christian and economist, Chief Economist at infineo, and Senior Fellow with the Mises Institute.

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  1. Dave H on 03/28/2025 at 2:51 AM

    Atheist Adam defending objective morality while Christian Bob makes the case against it was not expected – though Bob did fall into the trap of thinking that God can somehow bridge the gap. Even given a Christian God existing, morality is still subjective. You are just preferring to agree with God’s subjective preferences over some other set.

    The script flip mentioned around the problem of evil does not really work. When you ask “What standard are you even using to say that evil exists?” the answer is obvious – God’s own standard as stated by his believers, that we are adopting as a premise to the argument.

    • Tyler on 03/28/2025 at 1:37 PM

      I don’t know if the idea of god’s subjective preferences makes sense.

      • Dave H on 03/28/2025 at 4:48 PM

        The idea of claiming something becomes objective just because God tells you to do it is what makes no sense.

        Objective means able to be determined by independent observers. If God says murder is wrong, I cannot independently determine this. I can only take his word for it (or not).

    • Robert Murphy on 03/29/2025 at 1:35 AM

      Atheist Adam defending objective morality while Christian Bob makes the case against it was not expected
      Can you remind me of the time stamps where I made the case against objective morality?

      • Dave H on 03/29/2025 at 9:21 PM

        It starts around 48 mins where you describe the is-ought distinction and you never really go on to say any of these arguments are invalid. You only say that God somehow bridges this gap without further explaining why you think so.

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