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Do atheists even need an objective moral system?
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RE: Do atheists even need an objective moral system?
(December 12, 2012 at 8:53 pm)teaearlgreyhot Wrote: When theists throw the term "objective morality" around they mean that certain actions or states are right and wrong independent of anybody's opinion.

And how would this evaluation be made objectively if morality can't be measured in numbers. Temperature, kinetic energy, velocity, gravity, etc is objective because there are units of measure that can be expressed in numbers. Morality has no such unit of measure.

Quote:Why should we care if somebody has been wronged? Why is it wrong for somebody to be "wronged"?

Two words: social contract
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RE: Do atheists even need an objective moral system? - by DeistPaladin - December 12, 2012 at 9:36 pm

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