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What is the source for our morals?
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RE: What is the source for our morals?
I wonder if it has something to do with emotions. There is such a thing as emotional intelligence, which determines what the most fair moral outcome is for a given situation. People without emotions seem to lack this basic fundamental moral compass. So I think it's fair to say that, we attach emotional significance to certain person, we judge whether or not their treatment is fair, for the same reason we feel sad when another person dies. Emotional involvement probably plays a big factor in it, but I think it's also fair to say that intelligence plays a factor too.

I see the word "objective" used here. I tried to use the word objective to ask someone "why don't you use objective observation, instead of saying someone has no credibility", to someone who was saying the amazing atheist has no credibility. I think the word I mean to use was "critical analysis", instead of objective analysis. Critical thinking plays a very large role in morality, it's one of the reasons why I believe atheists are some of the most moral people on the planet. Say for instance, someone kicks their kid out of their house for being gay.That person obviously didn't arrive to the conclusion that being gay can make you disown your son or daughter through rational critical thinking.

I was trying to explain this earlier, that morality is something which can be intelligently observed. It's not random, and it's not arbitrary. The factor that determines morality is our ability to rationalize, make the most unbiased, fair, insightful, intelligent, observations, or simply acknowledge that some moral dilemmas are too confounding to solve with our current knowledge. It's science. It's the same as science. We can't know everything, but we can use our knowledge to observe the objectively unchanging world around, with our perspectives that are subjective to our own perception.
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What is the source for our morals? - by Mechaghostman2 - November 10, 2015 at 7:57 am
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by robvalue - November 10, 2015 at 8:08 am
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by abaris - November 10, 2015 at 8:28 am
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by Neo-Scholastic - November 10, 2015 at 10:46 am
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by Iroscato - November 10, 2015 at 10:54 am
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by brewer - November 10, 2015 at 10:57 am
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by Faith No More - November 10, 2015 at 10:57 am
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by Chad32 - November 10, 2015 at 11:07 am
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by robvalue - November 10, 2015 at 12:01 pm
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by JuliaL - November 10, 2015 at 12:03 pm
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by robvalue - November 10, 2015 at 12:10 pm
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by JuliaL - November 10, 2015 at 12:23 pm
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by robvalue - November 10, 2015 at 12:38 pm
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by JuliaL - November 10, 2015 at 12:52 pm
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by Athene - November 10, 2015 at 12:47 pm
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by Angrboda - November 10, 2015 at 12:51 pm
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by Mister Agenda - December 7, 2015 at 3:23 pm
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by robvalue - November 10, 2015 at 12:55 pm
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by JuliaL - November 10, 2015 at 1:05 pm
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by robvalue - November 10, 2015 at 9:47 pm
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by Cato - November 10, 2015 at 1:22 pm
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by robvalue - November 10, 2015 at 1:38 pm
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by Longhorn - November 10, 2015 at 1:42 pm
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by bennyboy - November 10, 2015 at 8:49 pm
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by Neo-Scholastic - November 11, 2015 at 4:49 pm
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by Cato - November 11, 2015 at 10:07 pm
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by Whateverist - November 11, 2015 at 5:10 pm
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by Neo-Scholastic - November 11, 2015 at 5:38 pm
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by The Grand Nudger - November 11, 2015 at 5:42 pm
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by Whateverist - November 11, 2015 at 5:55 pm
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by Neo-Scholastic - November 11, 2015 at 6:12 pm
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by The Valkyrie - November 11, 2015 at 5:58 pm
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by Reforged - November 11, 2015 at 6:03 pm
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by bennyboy - November 11, 2015 at 7:29 pm
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by Reforged - November 12, 2015 at 6:04 am
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by Whateverist - November 11, 2015 at 6:20 pm
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by itsjustme141 - November 11, 2015 at 9:32 pm
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by Edwardo Piet - November 11, 2015 at 9:58 pm
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by robvalue - November 12, 2015 at 6:11 am
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by ignoramus - November 12, 2015 at 7:18 am
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by robvalue - November 12, 2015 at 7:28 am
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by SpecUVdust - November 14, 2015 at 11:06 am
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by robvalue - November 14, 2015 at 1:02 pm
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by Neo-Scholastic - November 17, 2015 at 4:08 pm
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by Athene - November 17, 2015 at 5:04 pm
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by Thumpalumpacus - December 6, 2015 at 11:11 am
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by The Grand Nudger - November 17, 2015 at 5:00 pm
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by ApeNotKillApe - November 17, 2015 at 5:19 pm
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by Neo-Scholastic - November 17, 2015 at 5:41 pm
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by downbeatplumb - November 17, 2015 at 6:10 pm
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by Neo-Scholastic - November 17, 2015 at 6:38 pm
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by downbeatplumb - November 18, 2015 at 1:41 pm
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by Edwardo Piet - November 17, 2015 at 11:08 pm
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by Neo-Scholastic - November 18, 2015 at 9:55 am
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by Edwardo Piet - November 18, 2015 at 1:46 pm
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by downbeatplumb - November 18, 2015 at 1:47 pm
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by Homeless Nutter - December 6, 2015 at 11:34 am
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by downbeatplumb - December 7, 2015 at 1:51 pm
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by Homeless Nutter - December 6, 2015 at 11:24 am
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by Whateverist - November 18, 2015 at 10:37 am
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by DespondentFishdeathMasochismo - December 6, 2015 at 9:40 am
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by thool - December 7, 2015 at 8:58 pm
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by Mudhammam - December 10, 2015 at 11:43 pm
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by dyresand - December 12, 2015 at 1:02 am
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by The Grand Nudger - December 12, 2015 at 7:36 am
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by Mudhammam - December 12, 2015 at 12:56 pm
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by bennyboy - December 12, 2015 at 2:05 pm
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by Edwardo Piet - December 12, 2015 at 9:10 am

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