(August 3, 2015 at 4:24 pm)ChadWooters Wrote:(August 3, 2015 at 4:09 pm)Nope Wrote: Like when you give your word to be faithful to someone and don't cheat even though you meet someone else who is your physical ideal?
That's a good example. A normal person feels guilty about breaking their word. Now one possible flaw of premise 1 is that often people feel guilty about things they shouldn't (like going through a stop light in the middle of Wyoming at 4 a.m.) while other people appear undisturbed by the most heinous deeds. If the divine is indeed the source of conscience then one could expect it to be a more reliable guide.
We are conditioned by our culture to be honest so lying causes guilt. There doesn't have to be a deity involved; in fact, I think that the lack of god explains better why our sense of right and wrong can lead us to do bad things.