(January 22, 2017 at 7:55 pm)Joz Wrote: Hi guys, I am a Christian and I like to compare worldviews with atheists/other religions etc. If you're up for it I have some questions for you, I promise these are not so I can preach or assert irrational beliefs, I've read the forum rules for theists
Also I am not trying to catch anyone out, I am a thinker and I just genuinely want to know what you think about these things too.
Ooh! Questions for ME? Wow!
Quote:1. What is morality?
A given collective's or individual's assessment/determination of what is "right" and "wrong".
Quote:Do good and evil exist?
Sure. As concepts, YES, they exist.
Quote:2. Presuming that we are highly evolved biological machines whose main motivation is to survive and adapt, why, in societies in general, is there such a collective fixation with love? By this I mean the romantic love expressed in movies, pop music etc. In many movies there seems to be one story, that is, there is a hero, things go bad, the hero finds love, the hero fights for love, the bad is defeated, the hero wins the love. Why is this story so deeply ingrained in our collective subconsciousness?
Because evolution and biology aren't the ONLY factors that motivate/dictate human behavior.
Quote:3. Why does justice matter to each of us? If someone harms us or someone we love, we want them to pay the consequences. But why should there be consequences for our actions? That would imply judgement and an judge. What if the person that harmed us was merely executing their right to survival of the fittest?
See answers to Questions 1 and 2.
