RE: Why be good?
May 27, 2015 at 4:49 pm
(This post was last modified: May 27, 2015 at 4:50 pm by Jenny A.)
(May 27, 2015 at 2:10 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: Jenny A
(May 27, 2015 at 1:33 pm)Jenny A Wrote: Really? You think that most people don't commit murder because of the death penalty? I'm sure that's true in some cases, but most people don't commit murder because they've never wanted to. And more because they know it's wrong. If law were the only reason people didn't murder, there would be many more unsolved murders.My point is, if you consider lying for instance, to be immoral, then there is not one person who is moral, whether christian or atheist. The difference is, one realizes this...
Do you equate murder and lying on the moral scale, because I, and I think most people do not. Not all moral infractions are equal. Not to mention the fact that adultery still happens where it is illegal.
Lying is illegal under a variety of circumstances: testifying under oath, fraud, false advertising, etc. They all happen anyway. And creationists lie like no group I've ever seen. Is lying for god okay?
Yes, Huggy, there are no people who've never committed at least slight moral infractions even gauged by their own subjective standards. So? What is this great difference?
If you mean we are all doomed to hell fire for such infractions, I'd say your sense of proportion is absurdly, even immorally out of balance. Civilized people recognize the difference between gossip and murder.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
