Morality versus afterlife

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If morality, as in Orange's case, only serves to make a character in a book happy, what consequence is that if there is no afterlife? If the character is a god, is cheering it up really a priority worth persueing? Why is it so fucking miserable when it can do anything?

I agree Divinity, in reality, most people's morality probably wouldn't change much if they discovered there was no afterlife, or even no God. They'd just have an awakening as to where (most of) the morality actually comes from.

There is just one use of an arbitrary list of do's and don'ts to be used as morality, and that would be for someone who has literally no idea what to do. Maybe a psycopath who has no empathy, or someone who has never interacted with other humans before. An alien, even. Someone who wants to fit into our society, but to who killing someone seems as arbitrary an action as helping someone. For a person in this position, a well designed list could at least be a starting point. But no lists can ever be a fully comprehensive "objective morality", unless they are so simple as to be very limited in scope.