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Originally posted by Supercertari
So, "atheists", please tell me, can you be moral and if you can (without reference to anything "super"-natural) where does your morality come from? Why do atheists not murder and steal?
Originally posted by Harman
It's just the level of empathy a person has. The ability to put himself in the other ones shoes or the inability to not do it. No religion, no police, no nothing. Just the automatic question 'How would i feel if it happened to me?'
That is something coming out of yourself and not because you read it in a book or been tought somewhere.
Originally posted by Supercertari
So, "atheists", please tell me, can you be moral and if you can (without reference to anything "super"-natural) where does your morality come from? Why do atheists not murder and steal?
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you
So, "atheists", please tell me, can you be moral and if you can (without reference to anything "super"-natural) where does your morality come from? Why do atheists not murder and steal?
Originally posted by drwizardphd
If someone needs a reason like "god is watching over me" or "I might go to hell" to keep them from murdering and stealing than quite simply that person is insane.
Crimes that horrify us regularly take place in nature. The old and abandoned adult brutalized by a crowd of younger members of the same species and killed to steal what little they have left. If that's the story of a tramp and his coins we are horrified, if it's a lion it's nature's way. Why does the tramp's murder horrify us?