RE: Do theists need a threat to be moral?
June 13, 2016 at 12:56 pm
(This post was last modified: June 13, 2016 at 12:57 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
We frequently describe those whose moral or ethical value judgements are unlike our own (or not as compelling as our own, even to them) as "having no moral compass". That's not actually true, more a convention of speech.
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