(January 15, 2016 at 7:10 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: People have various views of right or wrong, but the fact they have views of it, says they all believe there is right or wrong. Now obviously we aren't going about the right way to discover objectively what we ought to praise or condemn, but, for sure, people would not have the view of right or wrong without belief that objective moral facts exist.
Perhaps, we are programmed to believe in things that aren't real? I think that explains a lot of the contradictions in behavior vs. belief in many people. I can say I don't believe in right and wrong, but I will still inevitably behave according to generic ideas of right and wrong, because that stuff has been socially engineered into my brain my entire life, on top of any biological inclinations towards the ideas that evolution may have dumped on me.
And the programming is strong enough, that'll I refer to things as right and wrong, even though I know those things don't exist. That really goes for many perceptions I have of the world around me. The illusion is so strong, that I lack the ability to dismiss it even though I know it is an illusion. Brains are weird like that.