Does Morality Depend on God for Its Legitimacy? Specifically, Is

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True/False

Does morality depend on God for its legitimacy? Specifically, is an action right (or wrong) because God commands that it be so-or is it right (or wrong) independent of God's commands, so that God must in fact answer to the moral law? The view that morality does depend on God is known as the "divine command theory," and Rachels critiques it in this reading. He argues that this conception of morality is false and that neither the theist nor the nontheist should accept it.
-Rachels says the arbitrariness problem is merely a semantic difficulty.

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Definitions:

Cognitive Error

A systematic pattern of deviation from norm or rationality in judgment, often leading to inaccurate conclusions or perceptions.

Heuristics

Cognitive shortcuts or rules of thumb that simplify decision making by enabling quicker judgments with less effort but potentially at the expense of accuracy.

Availability Heuristic

A mental shortcut that relies on immediate examples that come to a person’s mind when evaluating a specific topic, concept, method, or decision.

Representative Heuristic

A cognitive bias in which an individual categorizes a situation based on how similar it is to their prototype of a particular event or behavior, often leading to errors in decision making or judgment.